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Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant.

Having the form of a caulis.

Bearing or producing cells.

Bearing or producing little cells.

Producing a blue or sky color. [R.]

See Book scorpion, under Book.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

Having a movable joint or finger closing againts a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.