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A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] Hook.

Resembling a little stake.

Same as Parclose.

Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Growing in very small racemes.

Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

To close again. Pope.

Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure. Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

Somewhat rugose.

Growing in sandy places.

Having small bristles or setæ.

Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.

Covered with small spines.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose. Gray.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.

Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.

Same as Torose.