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Page 1139
... Botany and Zoology , organs with numer- ous narrow segments , resembling the teeth of a comb . Pectines . Comb - like organs born by the second abdomi- nal segment in scorpions . Pectinidæ ( SCOLLOPS ) . Lamellibranchs without a siphon ...
... Botany and Zoology , organs with numer- ous narrow segments , resembling the teeth of a comb . Pectines . Comb - like organs born by the second abdomi- nal segment in scorpions . Pectinidæ ( SCOLLOPS ) . Lamellibranchs without a siphon ...
Page 1141
... Botany and Zoology , organisms inhabiting the deep seas . Pelagic Zone . See BATHYMETRIC DISTRIBUTION . Pelagius . British heresiarch , in Rome ab . 400 ; perhaps a monk , but never ordained ; banished 418. His doctrine was urged by ...
... Botany and Zoology , organisms inhabiting the deep seas . Pelagic Zone . See BATHYMETRIC DISTRIBUTION . Pelagius . British heresiarch , in Rome ab . 400 ; perhaps a monk , but never ordained ; banished 418. His doctrine was urged by ...
Page 1142
... Botany , leaves or other organs having the stalk inserted on the lower surface of the lamina , instead of at the base , so as to become shield - shaped . Peltier's Effect . Thermo - electric phenomenon , first ob- served by Peltier ...
... Botany , leaves or other organs having the stalk inserted on the lower surface of the lamina , instead of at the base , so as to become shield - shaped . Peltier's Effect . Thermo - electric phenomenon , first ob- served by Peltier ...
Page 1146
... Botany , flowers constructed on the plan of five members of each circle of parts , or the quinary plan . Pentameter . Verse of five feet ; abridged hexameter , common in Greek , Latin , and modern poetry . Pentamethyl Pararosaniline ...
... Botany , flowers constructed on the plan of five members of each circle of parts , or the quinary plan . Pentameter . Verse of five feet ; abridged hexameter , common in Greek , Latin , and modern poetry . Pentamethyl Pararosaniline ...
Page 1150
... Botany , the tissue formed ex- ternally from the phellogen of stems . Its diminutive is peridiolum . Peridium . Investing membrane of the puff - balls , truffles , and other fungi , consisting of several layers of densely matted hyphæ ...
... Botany , the tissue formed ex- ternally from the phellogen of stems . Its diminutive is peridiolum . Peridium . Investing membrane of the puff - balls , truffles , and other fungi , consisting of several layers of densely matted hyphæ ...
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