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One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoögametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algæ (Chlorophyceæ).

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.

One of the Pycnogonida.

A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.

A perspective representation or general view of an object.

Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective. -- Scen`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye. Greenhill.

, n. A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.

One skilled in selenography. Wright.

Of or pertaining to selenography.

A selenographer.

the moon; - - corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. "Accurate selenography, or description of the moon." Sir T. Browne.

A gonidium.

An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia. -- n.

A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.