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A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

One of the tree frogs.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Ostracoidea.

Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

, at regular intervals, succesively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

A genus of small, bivalve, freshwater Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.

species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

ng hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. [Written also Ostracoda.]

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. -- Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. -- Wild tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Sout…