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Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

o to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not.

llusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

ian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

The Ingoat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) Of India.

ds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhib…

The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

nges of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

tographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.

A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. Lindley.

A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.