Lexicon Scientiarum: A Dictionary of Terms, Etc1851 |
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... resembling spermaceti , into which the soft parts of the animal body are sometimes converted after death . ADIPO'SE , Anat . , Lat . , adeps , fat . A term applied to fatty tissues . AD'NATE , Bot . , Lat . , adnascor , to cling to from ...
... resembling spermaceti , into which the soft parts of the animal body are sometimes converted after death . ADIPO'SE , Anat . , Lat . , adeps , fat . A term applied to fatty tissues . AD'NATE , Bot . , Lat . , adnascor , to cling to from ...
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... resembling the deposit on low lands after an inunda- tion . ALTER'NATE , Bot . , Lat . , alternus , one after another . Leaves are said to be alternate when they are inserted one above another at regular distances round the stem . AL ...
... resembling the deposit on low lands after an inunda- tion . ALTER'NATE , Bot . , Lat . , alternus , one after another . Leaves are said to be alternate when they are inserted one above another at regular distances round the stem . AL ...
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... resembling a section of a honey - comb . AMAL'GAMS , Chem . , Gr . , dua ( hama ) , together , and yau ( gamein ) , to join . Alloys of mercury with other Metals . That , for instance , used for electrical purposes , consists of mercury ...
... resembling a section of a honey - comb . AMAL'GAMS , Chem . , Gr . , dua ( hama ) , together , and yau ( gamein ) , to join . Alloys of mercury with other Metals . That , for instance , used for electrical purposes , consists of mercury ...
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... . AQUIFOLIA'CEE , Bot . , Lat . , aquifolius , relating to the Holly . A natural Order of Plants . It consists of trees or shrubs resembling the Holly in their leaves , & c . ARA'CEE , Bot . , Lat . , Arum , 3 * 29 APO - AQU .
... . AQUIFOLIA'CEE , Bot . , Lat . , aquifolius , relating to the Holly . A natural Order of Plants . It consists of trees or shrubs resembling the Holly in their leaves , & c . ARA'CEE , Bot . , Lat . , Arum , 3 * 29 APO - AQU .
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... resembling a large egg pendant from a narrow stem , by which it is attached to the rocks , and which , consequently , has no power of locomotion . ASCID'IOUS , Bot . , Gr . , aoxidiov ( askidion ) , a small leathern bottle . Plants , so ...
... resembling a large egg pendant from a narrow stem , by which it is attached to the rocks , and which , consequently , has no power of locomotion . ASCID'IOUS , Bot . , Gr . , aoxidiov ( askidion ) , a small leathern bottle . Plants , so ...
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Page 200 - The radius of a circle is a right line drawn from the centre to the circumference.
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Page 62 - The colures are two great circles called the equinoctial and solstitial, which intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the earth, dividing the ecliptic into four equal parts representing the four seasons.
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Page 92 - EOUINOCTIAL, ill astronomy, a great circle of the celestial globe, whose poles are the poles of the world. It is so called, because whenever the sun comes to this circle, the days and nights are equal all over the globe ; being the same with that which the sun seems to describe, at? the time of the two equinoxes of spring and autumn.
Page 35 - Azimuth, of the celestial bodies, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian and a vertical circle passing through the body.
Page 130 - Membrane, with an opening in the centre called the pupil, which separates the anterior from the posterior chamber of the eye ; it is of various colours in different persons, and hence the name.
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Page 122 - Hyperbola, a section of a cone made by a plane, so that the axis of the section inclines to the opposite leg of the cone.
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