Search the Dictionary

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.

Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage.

Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage. [Obs.] Johnson.

The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.

Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. Some hang upon the pendants of her ear. Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and P…

An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. Sir W. Scott.

Having five appendages resembling fingers or toes.

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.

A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia. -- Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into…

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.