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A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.

Having no capsule.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.

Consisting of, or having, clauses. Smart.

A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their connerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

Consular. [Obs.] Holland.

Consular government; term of office of a consul.

Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian. [R.] Ogilvie.

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.

Same as Grossular.

Having six capsules or seed vessels.

To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.

ng to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.