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The inner layer of the bark of trees.

rises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

One of the Entozoa.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

A peculiar structure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

Pertaining to the eozoön; containing eozoöns; as, eozoönal limestone.

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

Epicene. [R.] Hadley.

See Omentum.

One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Of or pertaining to an epizoön.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

See Parovarium.

An epic poem; epic poetry.

Expressing character. [Obs.] Urquhart.

or the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Written also uphroe and uvrou.] Knight.

A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

See Felly.