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A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archæologists in two senses:

The entire upper surface of the foot.

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

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…

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 genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.

The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.

Same as Pseudopod.

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family.

Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club tops…

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.