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Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary. [R.]

Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.

A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

A Turkish musical instrument.

A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.

Dicrotic.

Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation. [R.]

Sclerotic. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

isalana, of Mexico and Yucatan. -- Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea). -- Water hemp, an annual American weed (Acnida cannabina), related to the amaranth.

water siluroid fish; the bullpout. -- Horned rattler (Zoöl.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. -- Horned ray (Zoöl.), the sea devil. -- Horned screamer (Zoöl.), the…

The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, or Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

e fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.

An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.

Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diam…

A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.

An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp. [Written also sun.]

The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.