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A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.

nce or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. Udall. Man, . . . the paragon of animals ! Shak. The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon. Emerson.

the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.

Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zoöl.) See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.

ally to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

ll body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

air of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals. -- n.

A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.

the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

and. [Jocose] Dryden. Paw clam (Zoöl.), the tridacna; -- so called because shaped like an animal's paw.

Going on foot; not winged. [Obs.] "Pedestrious animals." Sir T. Browne.

A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.