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efly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceæ, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of hone, connective tissue, etc.

A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.

The formation of leucocytes.

s, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.

Of or pertaining to lithophytes.

Lithophytic.

Termination a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. [Scot.]

See Lithontriptic.

A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.

A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anæmia.

An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anæmia.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.

A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

gera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities. -- Myr`me*co*phyt"ic (#), a.

Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it.