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A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports

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A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals. (more info) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algæ, or a sporangium in ferns.

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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• APHIS
  A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. Note: Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• VERTEBRA
  One of the serial segments of the spinal column. Note: In many fishes the vertebræ are simple cartilaginous disks or short cylinders, but in the higher vertebrates they are composed of many parts, and the vertebræ in different portions of the
• NEURALGIC
  of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• CENTRUM
  The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• PHONOGRAPHIST
  Phonographer.
• CEROGRAPHIST
  One who practices cerography.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• DORSIVENTRAL
  Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
• EPIGRAPHIST
  A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• CHIROGRAPHIST
  1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.