A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.
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The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.
A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.
A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.
a natural family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries.
a large tropical American tree (Cordia alliodora) grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.
A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and N Caledonia.
A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
Cyprinoid.
a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.
an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.
One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.
a large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies.
Like the carp (Cyprinus). One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.
the type genus of the family Cyprinidae; carp.
of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries.
a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium.
A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
Same as Cyprus.
A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselid/.)
Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.
A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
Relating to capital letters.
A circular projecting portion.
A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
Inclosed in a cyst.
Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.
The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).
An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
One of the Cystidea.
An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.
One of the Cystidea.
A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.
A cyst. See Cyst.
Inflammation of the bladder.
A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Same as Cystidea.
Same as Cystidean.
A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
Relating to stone in the bladder.
A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Pertaining to the goddess Venus.
The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
See Protoplasm.
The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.
Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.
Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.
Cell production or development; cytogenesis.
Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
A pyrimidine (C4H5N3O) which is one of the four major basic components of DNA and RNA in most organisms, forming glyosides with ribose and deoxyribose. It is the basic component of cytidine, deoxycytidine, cytosine, cytidine monophosphate, and derivatives of those compounds.
Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.
An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.
The soluble components of the fluid matter enclosed within the cellular membrane; the portion of the cytoplasm which remains after removal of particulate components.
The inhibition or cessation of cell growth or division.
Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.
The mouth of a protozoan.
The movement of cells toward or away from other cells, as a result of some stimulation, such as chemical signals transmitted and received by the cells.
A branch of taxonomy which uses the characteristics of cellular structures, such as somatic chromosomes, to classify organisms.
The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
The title of the empress of Russia.
Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.
Of or pertaining to the czar.
The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.
One of the Czechs; an inhabitant or native of the Czech Republic.
Of or pertaining to the Czechs.
a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to a citizen of any current country. The natives of the former Czechoslovakia are now Czechs or Slovaks.
The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in the Czech Republic, consisting of the old regions of Bohemia and Moravia.
the day designated for the beginning of a planned attack by a military force; in communications the day is often otherwise unspecified for security reasons; as, the day before D-day the troops will move into position.
the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves.
same as dynamic RAM.
The United States Department of Transportation.
The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhubb.
That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
One who dabbles.
In a dabbling manner.
A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).
One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
A small European cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus leuciscus, formerly Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.
a genus of Australasian kingfishers.
a Russian country house, especially a cottage used in the summer.
One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. A native of ancient Dacia.
a natural family comprising the honeycreepers.
One of a class of robbers, in India and Burma (Myanmar), who act in gangs and are usually armed.
The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Same as Dacotas.
a brand of polyester textile fiber, or the wrinkle-resistant fabric prepared from it.
a genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines.
a genus of Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs.
the type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae, consisting of fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa.
A poetical foot of three sylables (/ / /), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t/gm/n/, E. mer/ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
A dactyl.
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments. The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
The art or process of gem engraving.
The art of writing or engraving upon gems. In general, the literature or history of the art.
That branch of arch/ology which has to do with gem engraving. That branch of arch/ology which has to do with finger rings.
Divination by means of finger rings.
A writer of dactylic verse.
An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
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