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A receptacle which bears many ovaries.

Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.

A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.

One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.…

One of the Rhynchophora.

The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.

To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.

See Shorling.

One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.

Toward the shore.

One of the Siphonophora.

That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.

Same as Spermospore.

A spermatophore.

The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.

pores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oöphore.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

Same as Gonotheca.