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A fair lass. "This pretty whiting-mop." Massinger.

A bacteroid ferment.

floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

ing on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or…

A crystalline substance (chemically, tribromophenol, C6H2Br3OH), used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ. Byron.

The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.

Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.

A chromoplastid.

See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.

ea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms. [Written also Elasmopoda.]

Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.

One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

el. (Zoöl.) (a) One of numerous species of burrowing rodents of the genera Tamias and Spermophilus, having cheek pouches. The former genus includes the Eastern striped squirrel or chipmunk and some allied Western species; the latter includes the prairie squirrel or striped gopher, the gray gopher, and many allied Weste…

r with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

nce of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bir…

le widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. See Homophyly, Promorphology.

Same as Homoplast.