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Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

The love of offspring; fondness for children.

One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists.

Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

One of the Phyllopoda.

An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.

Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.

Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.

One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.

Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes.

Having down upon the pterylæ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

Same as Dasypædes.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

An order of birds including only the penguins.

To develop again; specif. (Photog.),

Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidæ, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.

Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.