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Resembling a scar; scarlike.

Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.

ed groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xyl…

Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidæ).

A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.

Like or pertaining to the dragon fi

An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura.

Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea. -- n.

Same as Gephyrea.

Resembling a tubercle.

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.

ss (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Cenchrus tribuloides). -- Hedgehog rat (Zoöl.), one of several West Indian rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to Capromys, Plagiodon, and allied genera.…

of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.

tion of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.

the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.

ficial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. -- Quaking grass. (Bot.…

See under Ragged. -- Robin accentor (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin. -- Robin redbreast. (Zoöl.) (a) The European robin. (b) The American robin. (c) The American bluebird. -- Robin snipe. (Zoöl.) (a) The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher.…

Same as Limuloidea. Called also Xiphosura. X ray. See under Ray.