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An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.

A salt of hypophosphoric acid.

A salt of hypophosphorous acid.

containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid. Hypophosphoric acid (Chem.), an acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated only as a solution in water. It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric…

containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid. Hypophosphorous acid (Chem.) , an acid, H3PO2, whose salts are produced by the action of barium hygrate on phosphorus. It may be obtained from its water solution, by exaporation and freezing, as a white crystal…

Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.

Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.

See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.

The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.

An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. Thackeray.

The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

of or pertaining to a neurapophysis.

One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic…

The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. -- Par*ap`o*phys"ic*al, a.

One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

A posterior zygapophysis.

Same as Prezygapophysis.