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On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear. Parotic region (Zoöl.), the space around the ears.

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns.

Having five capsules.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule. -- n.

The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

petrous portion of the temporal bone of man; or one forming more or less of the periotic capsule.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

A division of Radiolaria. It includes those having one more central capsules.

Containing many seeds; as, a polyspermous capsule or berry. Martyn.

gh all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule. California poppy (Bot.), any yellow-flowered plant of the genus Eschscholtzia. -- Corn poppy. See under Corn. -- Horn, or Horned, poppy. See under Horn. -- Poppy bee (Zoöl.), a leaf-cutting bee (Anthocopa papaveris) wh…

ntal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes. -- n.

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.

ting, a bone between the proötic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. -- n.

A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.

Having four capsules.

l calculus (Med.), a concretion formed in the excretory passages of the kidney. -- Renal capsules or glands, the suprarenal capsules. See under Capsule. -- Renal casts, Renal colic. (Med.) See under Cast, and Colic.

The connected series of large egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca. Ruffle of a boot, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. Halliwell.