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Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

The entire upper surface of the foot.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

See Collodion.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

A sirup made of poppies.

One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.

See Exode.

The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera.

A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used in the manufacture of fireworks, and the artificial representation of ligh…

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

Same as Metapode.

A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.

The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.

The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.

A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.