Zoarium dendritic or linear, firmly fixed to extraneous objects; zooecia tubular, not fused together to form a gelatinous mass.
It is mainly owing to the swollen and almost gelatinous nature of the ectocyst that the dendritic character of the zoarium is frequently concealed, for the method of branching is essentially the same as that of P.
Zoarium forming a gelatinous mass in which the tubular nature of the zooecia almost disappears, capable to a limited extent of progression along a smooth surface.
Zooecia cylindrical, not embedded in a gelatinousinvestment (Plumatellinae).
In its simplest form it is merely a cylindrical tube of living matter which secretes an outer horny or gelatinous covering.
The zoaria of this subfamily are never dendritic but form gelatinous masses which, except in Australella, are cushion-shaped or sack-like.
Adult zoaria are, however, always embedded together in groups in a gelatinous investment which they are thought to secrete in common[BN], and the statoblasts are entirely surrounded by processes that bear curved spinules at their tips only.
BI] In Shasthancottah Lake, Travancore, I found specimens of the stricta phase embedded in the gelatinous mass formed by a social rotifer and to some extent assimilated to the coralloides form.
Zooecia tubular, not confined in a gelatinous synoecium; the ectocyst usually horny.
From Stephanella, Oka, it is distinguished by the absence of a gelatinous covering, and by the fact that all the zooecia are attached, at least at the base, to some extraneous object.
West has discovered in it the cells of an alga belonging to a genus which habitually secretes a gelatinous investment of its own (see p.
It is not necessary to deal here with most of the cells that occur in the parenchyma or gelatinous part of the sponge.
The following statements bear directly upon the problem: The early animal forms were probably soft or gelatinous without shells and lived mostly in the open sea where food (seaweeds, etc.
The rice, having been cooked with little water, clung together in a gelatinous mass which had a fine sweet taste, entirely lacking when cooked in the white man's way.
A couple of men brought us two bamboos containing that gelatinous delicacy into which rice is transformed when cooked in this way.
A gelatinousenvelope (probably akin to mucin in composition) surrounding each individual organism, and preventing absolute contact between any two.
These are gelatinous elongations of the cell protoplasm (or more probably of the capsule), occurring either at one pole, at both poles, or scattered around the entire periphery.
The daughter cells may remain united by the gelatinous envelope for a variable time.
These are small gelatinous bags, transparent, cylindrical, sometimes polygonal, thirteen lines long and two or three in diameter.
These animals are composed of a gelatinous material, and show scarcely any trace of distinct organs.
Defn: A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
Defn: A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance.
Defn: A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
Defn: The clusters ofgelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
Defn: A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.
Defn: A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.
Cookery) Defn: Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
Defn: A gelatinousor slimy substance found in certain algæ and other plants.
Defn: A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates.
Defn: A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.
Defn: One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
Defn: A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.
Defn: A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.
Defn: To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.
The gelatinous cuticle imparts its character to the dish.
It stews to a firm gelatinousmass of pleasant flavor.
They are hard, tough, horny when dry, but swell and become gelatinous when wet.
Helvella-like but with a very soft gelatinous stem, yellow.
Allied to Marasmius, but differing in its sub-gelatinous substance.
The members of this genus resemble in form the section Mesopus of Hydnum and have the same awl-shaped spines, but differ in their gelatinous consistency and fructification.
The cuticle is separable and is tenacious, though it has a hyaline gelatinous appearance.
Before rupture of the volva the plant is a semi-gelatinous mass, tenacious and elastic.
It is not as tender as othergelatinous species, but it is an oddity that pleases.
These tufts dried, and revived after rain into a gelatinous condition.
Receptacle= and =gleba= at first enclosed in a universal volva composed of three distinct layers, the central one being gelatinous at maturity.
In its passage to the exterior the ovum passes a glandular structure on the wall of the genital capsule, which probably secretes the gelatinous substance enclosing the eggs.
In the other cases the eggs are surrounded by a tough gelatinous elastic material secreted by the nidamental glands.
In Loligo the eggs are very numerous, and are enclosed in cylindrical transparent gelatinous strings united at one end into a cluster.
A bichromated, gelatine paper can be obtained by coating a hard writing paper of medium thickness with a gelatinous solution consisting of 1 oz.
Photo-litho transfer paper is in every respect a specific article, the coating of which consists of a gelatinous emulsion, which can be readily sensitised, and upon which a photographic image can be developed.
During the early experiments in carbon printing it was discovered that a gelatinous film sensitised with certain bichromates could be charged with a coloured pigment, and a picture developed thereon.
It was found that after exposure under the negative the transfer ink would only adhere to such portions of the gelatinoussurface as had been acted upon by the light.
That field was a sea of liquid mud whilst rain was falling, and it became a gelatinous pulp when it began to dry.
After some hours of horrors in this wood, we eventually emerged on to a narrow lane which was a sea of gelatinous and slippery mud; two steps forward, and one back.
What can be more widely contrasted then a newly-born child and the small gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum?
The theory sometimes advanced, that the efficiency of filtration is controlled to a certain extent by gelatinous films, and that, as far as thus controlled, is less dependent on rate, would not seem to be borne out by these results.
Between the sheath and the vessels is a thick gelatinous fluid called the Gelatine of Wharton.
Between these is a gelatinous substance, and within the amnion is a fluid, called the liquor amnii.
The outer covering is formed by a toughening of the surface of a thick gelatinous coat which surrounds the essential parts of the egg.
The salt brine or gelatinous sea-water sinks weighted to the bottom, and over it flows the fresh river-water.
Far through the ever-varying surface of the curious gelatinous liquid breaks the phosphorescence, sprinkled into innumerable lights and cross-lights.
Collemaceae); in these the algae are Chroococcaceae and Nostocaceae, and the fungus makes its way into the gelatinous membranes of the algal cells and ramifies there (fig.
A branched filiform thallus of Stigonema with the hyphae of the fungus growing through its gelatinous membranes.
The gelatinoustissue of the Medusae and Ctenophora.
The lower surface of each disc, which forms the future aboral surface of the Medusa, becomes convex, in part owing to the development of gelatinous tissue.
It is secreted by the protoplasm of the ovum, and has a gelatinous consistency, and after it is formed the peripheral layer of the protoplasm of the ovum sends out through it pseudopodia-like processes to absorb nutriment from without.
The origin of the gelatinous tissue is still involved in much obscurity.
Between the epiblast and hypoblast of the prominence gelatinoustissue becomes deposited, and the hydrophyllium is thus converted into a large umbrella-like organ enclosing the polypite.
The skeletogenous layer of the Actinozoa is probably the morphological homologue of the gelatinous tissue; but the evidence we have is on the whole in favour of the connective-tissue cells it contains being epiblastic in origin.
Elsewhere a wide cavity is developed between the two vesicles which becomes filled with gelatinous tissue.
In Loligo the eggs are enveloped in elongated sack-like gelatinous cords, each containing about thirty or forty eggs.
A process of the contractile gelatinous tissue of the body, the origin of which is described below, makes its way, according to Kowalevsky, into the tentacles.
It is probable that the great mass of the gelatinous tissue of the adult is an intercellular substance derived from these cells.
The gelatinous tissue of the Ctenophora appears as a homogeneous layer between the epiblast and the yolk cells, and is probably homologous with the layer formed in the same situation in all other coelenterate forms.
SER'ICIN, the gelatinoussubstance of silk; SER'ICITE, a variety of potash mica.
Bacteria, in which they are embedded in gelatinous material.
Silicate of soda will precipitate calcium carbonate with the formation of a gelatinoussilicate of lime and carbonate of soda.
The composition of these compounds is almost invariably based on soda with certain tannic substances and in some instances a gelatinous substance which is presumed to encircle scale particles and prevent their adhering to the boiler surfaces.
The smaller prismatic and transversal canal, intercepted by these two orders of plates, are filled withgelatinous matter.
In the interior of the gelatinous mass which constitutes the animals, however, granules and microscopic portions of vegetables are frequently discovered.
The gelatinous substance of which the body of the Medusa is formed is sometimes colourless and limpid as crystal; sometimes it is opaline, and occasionally of a bright blue or pale rose colour.
The animals which produced this appearance were about six inches long, and formed of a gelatinous and translucent matter.
Once fixed, the larvæ loses the cilia, spreads itself out, and takes the form of a flattened gelatinous disk.
It feeds on similar substances, and its eggs are collected in gelatinous masses also.
The gelatinous substance of their bodies is channeled and riddled with holes--the fibrous framework is completed--the sponge is formed.
The intense heat had rendered it so firm that nothing could be made of it; all the gelatinous parts had adhered so firmly to the bag, that I was compelled to abandon it.
I now extended my examination in front of the womb to the posterior part of the mammae, and in doing so discovered a small gelatinous mass, about twice the size of a pea.
Then he emits spermatophores in the form of a mushroom-shaped gelatinous mass whose head consists largely of sperms.
The small, black eggs of the Toad differ from those of the Frogs in the fact that they form a double row embedded in a gelatinous string ten to fifteen feet in length.
The synovial membrane, however gelatinous or thickened looking, really requires very little care or notice; it will disappear of itself, partly by sloughing, partly by absorption during the profuse suppuration.
The latter had come for the purpose of collecting the gelatinous Fucus, agar-agar.
In the present instance it appeared unequivocally to proceed from innumerable small granular gelatinous bodies, about the size of a pin's head.
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