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Producing sporules.

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Bearing one or more styles.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

A plant producing an umbel or umbels.

nt (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferæ, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy- coumarin.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferæ) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.

Bearing something like an open umbrella.

Carrying or bearing sails. [Obs.] "Veliferous chariots." Evelyn.

nd of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

arly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.

; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.