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An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.

-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

or other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

d in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to Ant: dioecious.

nuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite. Hermann.

An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.

e last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. Gen. W. T. Sherman.

rrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth…

A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. [An obs. local term in Eng.] Chapman.

A fisherman; an angler.

Poikilothermal.

A Linnæan class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.