A phylactery.

Wearing a phylactery.

Of or pertaining to phylacteries.

Any charm or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothec/.

An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

Of or pertaining to the Phylactol/ma.

Same as Phylactol/ma.

The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.

A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

A mineral related to ottrelite. Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.

A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

A genus consisting of celery pine.

A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.

The cavity of a hydrophyllium.

Same as Phyllodium.

Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.

A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.

A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

Resembling a leaf.

An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.

A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.

The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons.

One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists. One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon the leaves of plants, as the chafers.

Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

One of the Phyllopoda. [Also used adjectively.]

An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.

Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.

Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp.

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

A phyllostome.

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.

A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe.

A natural family consisting of the plant lice.

Relating to phylogenesis, or the evolutionary history of a type of organism.

The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

A tribe.

One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

A tubercle on any external part of the body.

A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.

An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.

A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.

A small genus of Western North American herbs similar to Lesquerella; the bladderpods.

A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.

The genus that includes the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.

To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.

The doctrine that matter is the only reality.

A preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites; -- of people.

In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.

The quality of being physical; consisting of matter; materiality.

A person skilled in medicine, or the art of healing; especially, one trained and licensed to treat illness and prescribe medicines; a doctor of medicine.

The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.

One versed in physics.

p. pr. vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.

Mixed mathematics.

The philosophy of nature.

Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.

Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.

Logic illustrated by physics.

Of or pertaining to physicologic.

Physics.

The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.

One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.

The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.

Physiognomist.

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

One skilled in physiognomy.

To observe and study the physiognomy of.

Physiognomic.

The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.

The birth of nature.

Of or pertaining to physiography.

The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.

The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship.

A physiologist.

Physiological.

Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.

In a physiological manner.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.

The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.

Therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and so on.

The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

Physiogmony.

One of the Physoclisti.

An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

One of the Physopoda; a thrips.

Same as Thysanoptera.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

Having a duct to the air bladder. Pertaining to the Physostomi.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals.

Relating to phytochemistry.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

Phytochemistry.

The doctrine of the generation of plants.

Of or pertaining to phytogeography.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Relating to phytoglyphy.

See Nature printing, under Nature.

Of or pertaining to phytography.

The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.

Resembling a plant; plantlike.

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

An old name for a fossil plant.

One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.

The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.