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Delftware. Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift.

Delphic.

Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).

Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.

The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.

A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin,

or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.

Of or relating to the Didelphia. -- n.

Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.

Same as Didelphic.

Didelphic.