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ttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.

The fishhawk.

To prophesy; to presage. [R. & Obs.] R. Edgeworth.

A prophetic or ominous utterance. [R. & Obs.] Holland.

A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.

bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

A little bone.

Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.

A species of sturgeon.

Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard. The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic. G. Eliot.

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

Having small bones.

Same as Ossicle.

Containing or yielding bone.

Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

rocess, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

The lammergeir.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.