Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp.
Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc.
They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming.
Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
They are always on the upper side of the cladode, though it generally happens that they are turned downwards by a twisting of the base of the leaflike branch.
The numerous flower heads are of a dull yellow colour, with leaflike bracts, arranged in a branched corymb.
Below the main axis of the seed-bearing part of the cone was a series of large complex leaflike structures closely resembling fern leaves in their much-divided nature.
Seed-bearing Scale of Cycas, showing its lobed and leaflike character s, Seeds attached on either side below the divisions of the sporophyll.
Very numerous tetrads enclosed in a spore case or sporangium which develops on a leaflike segment called the sporophyll.
In Cycas the male cones are like those of the other genera, and reach an enormous size; but there are no female cones, for the seeds are borne on special leaflike scales.
Though black andleaflike when mature, it is, in its beginning, like a disk of tiny round green spots, and from this it gets its name.
A dry, black, leaflike substance patched their surfaces, and this George told me is the wakwanapsk which the Indians in their extremity of hunger use for broth.
Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
A remarkable lamnoid shark of Japanese deep waters has the snout produced into a long, flat, flexible, leaflike blade.
At the base of the leaf stems are small leaflike parts, called stipules, which in this species are very small, linear and entire.
Instead of stem leaves, there are very small, leaflike bracts placed at some distance apart on the stem.
In a complete and perfect flower there are, at the bottom of it, a row of green leaflike sheaths which [Illustration: FIGS.
Their vegetative or green parts vary much in shape, size, and the arrangement of the tinyleaflike appendages, and while most of them are a beautiful bright green, nearly all the bog or sphagnum mosses are rather ashy gray in color.
In many partly desert or dry regions this production of leaflike stems or branches is common, an excellent garden example being asparagus, which came originally from Europe and the feathery growth of which is all stem.
Although they are rather small, they appear to have a somewhat definite stem and tiny leaflike appendages of it, without, however, having the vascular system found in all ferns.
In certain others, as in the ostrich fern, the spores are borne on leaflike growths that serve only this function.
The outer leaflike tubular or hooded spathe surrounds in our common Jack-in-the-Pulpit a clublike spadix, upon which are crowded the tiny flowers.
Defn: Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp.
Defn: The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc.
Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
Defn: A leaflikeorgan or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.
Defn: Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
Defn: Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
In the surf, where it piled in upon the reef, grew a beautiful form known as leaf coral, spreading out like the horns of the moose in great leaflike shapes.
The fairy shrimp is a dainty and beautiful crustacean with a marvelous array of leaflike feet which also serve as breathing organs.
They swam with quiverings of their four leaflike arms, letting the opulent tresses of their tentacles dangle in the drift.
There, between its leaflike folds, I saw a loose pearl as big as a coconut.
The katydid least leaflike in appearance was eaten first.
Thus those most leaflike remain until the last, and are most likely to produce young.
This insect is so large that, even though it is leaflikein color, it might still be conspicuous.
The young is darker and has a leaflike middorsal mark which fades as growth proceeds.
Pigmentation is usually most intense along the lateral edges of the dorsal leaflike mark; the central portion may be so much paler that the effect is that of a pair of dorsolateral stripes.
At the time of metamorphosis, young are dark brown with specks of black and with a dark, cuneate, leaflike middorsal mark.
Small often leaflike formations, confined to the base of the leaf.
The arms are untinctured, and leaflike mantling falling from the helmet surrounds the shield; there is no crest.
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