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A citron melon. Citron melon. (a) A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. (b) A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves. -- Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be…

A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

cal compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. -- Fire clay , a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. -- Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.…

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

The Russian variety of bagatelle.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.

A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. -- Comma butterfly (Zoöl.…

A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

s depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.