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Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. -- n.

One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. [U.S.]

See Manioc.

The fold of peritoneum attached to the cæcum. -- Mes`o*cæ"cal, a.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.

Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians. -- n.

A monocarpic plant.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

e main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.

One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.

Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.

See Nitromethane.

Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.