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or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry. This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower.

In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

A person that plays on the lute. Johnson.

A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life. -- Mon`ta*nis"tic, Mon`ta*nis"tic*al, a.

One versed in paleobotany.

The soosoo.

A very wicked-person. [R.] Granger.

One who upholds ultramontanism.

t, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

A botanist. [Obs.]

he calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

plants with very handsome bell- shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

Of or pertaining to Linnæus, the celebrated Swedish botanist. Linnaean system (Bot.), the system in which the classes are founded mainly upon the stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system.

Same as Lutanist.

tian tombs. -- Mummy wheat (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy wheat has been made to germinate in modern times. -- To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

A phylum of the vegetable kingdom consisting of the class Myxomycetes. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.

A paleobotanist.

A Montanist.

One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.