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genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

x, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.

A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.

Of or relating to a myriologue.

One who composes or sings a myriologue.

An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. [Modern Greece]

Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves.

See Myriapoda.

A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

A form of kaleidoscope.

A salt of myristic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.

The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

acia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities. -- Myr`me*co*phyt"ic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others.

iliffs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. Pope.

Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.