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Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes o…

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

e; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

ns; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

he power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

Any small globular body; as,

trength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

To beslobber.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To beslobber.

ing two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

ue gage. See under Gage, a plum. -- Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. Se…

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.