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One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent. Heumann.

Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands.

One who holds lands by emphyteusis.

A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

Of or pertaining to eophytes.

Pertaining to an epiphyte.

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphyte. -- Ep`i*phyt"ic*al*ly, adv.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

Red in color. "The erythrean main." Milton.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.

rsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.

et, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.…