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olden mole (Zoöl), one of several South African Insectivora of the family Chrysochloridæ, resembling moles in form and habits. The fur is tinted with green, purple, and gold. -- Golden number (Chronol.), a number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having…

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior…

An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.

th. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

Resembling grains; granular.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants.

Bearing leaves resembling those of grass.

Resembling granite in structure or shape.

Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid. -- Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of the carbon which is present as graphite. Raymond.…

Resembling graphite or plumbago.

Composed of, or resembling, grapes. The grapy clusters. Addison.

Resembling grass; green.

A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.