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A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

A kind of small simple wind instrument.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Office or duty of an advocate.

The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

To localize. [R.]

An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.