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The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.

A tussock moth (Ocneria dispar) native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the…

Same as Hæmatachometer.

Same as Hæmatachometry.

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

Any moth of the family Sphingidæ, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other…

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Same as Homotaxis.

Relating to homotaxis.

Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.

Same as Homotaxis.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Turned in the same direction with something else.

Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.

the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. Owen.

Same as Homotypal.

A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.