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The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

d project. Spenser. Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope.

Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.

of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.C3H2O2, CH.C.COOH

ginally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name. Protein crystal. (Bot.) See Crystalloid, n., 2.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

phide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.

t gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

Not having the true form. Pseudomorphous crystal, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

ing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.

Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.

To cry like a chicken. Bacon.

A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.

ng to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.