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Having foramina; full of holes; porous. Bacon.

Having fortitude; courageous. [R.] Gibbon.

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

In a smoky manner.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

Double; in pairs. Sir T. Browne.

Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.

The quality of being glutinous.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. [R.] Bailey.

Originating in the blood.

Of the nature of a halogen.

t one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

rocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

Having seven pistils.

Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

Characterized by heterogony. -- Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.