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Meaning of La

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La - A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.

Acanthocephala - A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

A cappella - In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A cappella - A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.

Acephala - That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

Acicula - One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Armilla - An armil.

Armilla - A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.

Actinula - A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.

Ala - A winglike organ, or part.

Algarovilla - The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Alula - A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

Ametabola - A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

Ampulla - A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

Ampulla - A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

Ampulla - The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.

Ampulla - Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

Angola - A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

Animalcula - of Animalculum

Anisodactyla - Alt. of Anisodactyls

Anopla - One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.

Aquila - A genus of eagles.

Aquila - A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.

Archencephala - The division that includes man alone.

Archiblastula - A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.

Areola - An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Areola - The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

Argala - The adjutant bird.

Artiodactyla - One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.

Asyla - of Asylum

Audita querela - A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.

Aureola - Alt. of Aureole

Auricula - A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.

Auricula - A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.

Auricula - A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

Auricula - One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

Avicula - A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.

Axilla - The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

Axilla - An axil.

Baggala - A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

Bandala - A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

Barilla - A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

Barilla - The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

Barilla - Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

Bengola - A Bengal light.

Beteela - An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.

Blastula - That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

Bulla - A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

Bulla - The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

Bulla - A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

Bulla - A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Cabala - A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

Cabala - Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.

Cabrilla - A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

Caffila - See Cafila.

Cafila - Alt. of Cafileh

Calcavella - A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos.

Calendula - A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

Calla - A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.

Camarilla - The private audience chamber of a king.

Camarilla - A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

Campanula - A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.

Canella - A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies.

Cannicula - The Dog Star; Sirius.

Cannula - A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.

Canula - Alt. of Canulated

Capella - A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.

Capitula - See Capitulum.

Cappella - See A cappella.

Carambola - An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

Cardialgla - Alt. of Cardialgy

Caruncula - A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

Caruncula - An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Caruncula - A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.

Cascarilla - A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.

Caudicula - A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

Cedilla - A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.

Cella - The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

Cerebella - of Cerebellum

Chela - The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

Chinchilla - A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

Chinchilla - The fur of the chinchilla.

Chinchilla - A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.

Chrysocolla - A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

Cicala - A cicada. See Cicada.

Claribella - A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.

Coagula - of Coagulum

Coccinella - A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

Codilla - The coarse tow of flax and hemp.

Collembola - The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

Colla - of Collum

Columbella - A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

Columella - An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

Columella - A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

Columella - A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

Columella - The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

Columella - The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

Comatula - A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Copula - The word which unites the subject and predicate.

Copula - The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

Cornicula - of Corniculum

Corolla - The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

Coronilla - A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

Cotyla - Alt. of Cotyle

Crapula - Alt. of Crapule

Cunabula - The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

Cunabula - The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.

Cupola - A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

Cupola - A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

Cupola - A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

Cupola - A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

Cupola - The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

Curricula - of Curriculum

Cypsela - A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

Cytula - The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

Damosella - Alt. of Damoiselle

Dendroc/la - A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

Diverticula - of Diverticulum

Doncella - A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

Fasciola - A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

E-la - Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.

Emgalla - The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.

Enopla - One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

Euplectella - A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

Fabella - One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Faecula - See Fecula.

Falcula - A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

Favella - A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.

Fecula - Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.

Fecula - The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.

Fecula - The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

Fenes-tella - Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

Ferula - A ferule.

Ferula - The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.

Fibrilla - A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Fibula - A brooch, clasp, or buckle.

Fibula - The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.

Fibula - A needle for sewing up wounds.

Fissurella - A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

Fistula - A reed; a pipe.

Fistula - A pipe for convejing water.

Fistula - A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.

Flagella - of Flagellum

Flotilla - A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

Forficula - A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.

Formula - A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Formula - A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

Formula - A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

Formula - A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.

Formula - A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

Foveola - A small depression or pit; a fovea.

Fovilla - One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

Fraenula - of Fraenulum

Fringilla - A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

Furcula - A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

Gala - Pomp, show, or festivity.

Ganocephala - A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

Gastrula - An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.

Gastrula - Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Gentianella - A kind of blue color.

Geophila - The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

Glabella - The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.

Glabella - of Glabellum

Glumella - Alt. of Glumelle

Gondola - A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

Gondola - A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

Gondola - A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads.

Gorilla - A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

Granadilla - The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.

Granilla - Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

Grubbla - To feel or grope in the dark.

Guerilla - See Guerrilla.

Guerrilla - An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.

Guerrilla - One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.

Guerrilla - Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.

Gula - The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

Gula - A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

Gula - A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

Gyrencephala - The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted.

Haustella - of Haustellum

Koala - A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.

Hemimetabola - Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

Hexapla - A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

Holla - Hollo.

Holla - See Hollo, v. i.

Holometabola - Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Hyperbola - A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

Hypoptila - of Hypoptilum

Ichthyocolla - Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

Impalla - The pallah deer of South Africa.

Incunabula - of Incunabulum

Infula - A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

Infundibula - of Infundibulum

Inghalla - The reedbuck of South Africa.

Intermaxilla - See Premaxilla.

Intervalla - of Intervallum

Involucella - of Involucellum

Isabella - Alt. of Isabella color

Itala - An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).

Jugula - of Jugulum

Kabala - See Cabala.

Kamala - The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm.

Labella - of Labellum

Lacinula - A diminutive lacinia.

Lamella - a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

Latibula - of Latibulum

Lenticula - A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

Lenticula - A lens of small size.

Lenticula - A lenticel.

Li bella - A small balance.

Li bella - A level, or leveling instrument.

Ligula - See Ligule.

Ligula - The central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees.

Ligula - A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

Lingula - A tonguelike process or part.

Lingula - Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

Lipocephala - Same as Lamellibranchia.

Lirella - A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Lissencephala - A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.

Locustella - The European cricket warbler.

Lumachella - A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

Lunula - Same as Lunule.

Lyencephala - A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

Macula - A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

Macula - A rather large spot or blotch of color.

Magdala - Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Mala - Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.

Malacobdella - A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

Mala - of Malum

Mammilla - The nipple.

Manila - Alt. of Manilla

Manilla - Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.

Manilla - A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.

Manilla - A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.

Manilla - Same as Manila.

Mantilla - A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

Mantilla - A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.

Marginella - A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

Marsala - A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.

Maxilla - The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.

Maxilla - The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.

Maxilla - One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.

Medulla - Marrow; pith; hence, essence.

Medulla - The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.

Medulla - A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith.

Mesoscapula - A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.

Metabola - Alt. of Metabole

Metabola - Alt. of Metabolia

Micella - A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

Miliola - A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

Mochila - A large leather flap which covers the saddletree.

Mola - See Sunfish, 1.

Monerula - A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

Monocondyla - A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida.

Morula - The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

Mulla - Same as Mollah.

Myelencephala - Same as Vertebrata.

Nebula - A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

Nebula - A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.

Nebula - A cloudy appearance in the urine.

Neurula - An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

Nubecula - A nebula.

Nubecula - Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.

Nubecula - A slight spot on the cornea.

Nubecula - A cloudy object or appearance in urine.

Nucula - A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.

Nyula - A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings. O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre.

Octapla - A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

Olla - A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.

Olla - A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

Opercula - See Operculum.

Opercula - of Operculum

Opuscula - of Opusculum

Orbicula - Same as Discina.

Oscula - of Osculum

Ossicula - of Ossiculum

Osteocolla - A kind of glue obtained from bones.

Osteocolla - A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.

Ovula - of Ovulum

Padella - A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

Paleola - A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

Palla - An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

Palola - An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.

Papilla - Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.

Papula - A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.

Papula - One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

Parabola - A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.

Parabola - One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

Paracorolla - A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.

Paradactyla - of Paradactylum

Parella - Alt. of Parelle

Patela - A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

Patella - A small dish, pan, or vase.

Patella - The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

Patella - A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

Patella - A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.

Patellula - A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Pathopoela - A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.

Pela - See Wax insect, under Wax.

Peninsula - A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

Pennatula - Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

Penumbrala - Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.

Pseudonavicella - Same as Pseudonavicula.

Pseudonavicula - One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarinae and some other Protozoa.

Pseudostella - Any starlike meteor or phenomenon.

Pericula - of Periculum

Perilla - A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.

Perissodactyla - A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Perula - One of the scales of a leaf bud.

Perula - A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides.

Petala - of Petalum

Phainopepla - A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

Phanerodactyla - Same as Saururae.

Philomela - The nightingale; philomel.

Philomela - A genus of birds including the nightingales.

Phyla - of Phylon

Phyla - of Phylum

Pinguicula - See Butterwort.

Pinnula - Same as Pinnule.

Planula - In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

Planula - The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.

Plumula - A plumule.

Plumula - A down feather.

Polygala - A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

Postscapula - The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.

Praemaxilla - See Premaxilla.

Predella - The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

Premaxilla - A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillae become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.

Presscapula - The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

Primula - The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).

Propagula - of Propagulum

Propyla - of Propylon

Prosopocephala - Same as Scaphopoda.

Prunella - Angina, or angina pectoris.

Prunella - Thrush.

Prunella - Alt. of Prunello

Psylla - Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae.

Pteryla - One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

Pulsatilla - A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

Pyla - The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.

Pyrula - A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

Rachilla - Same as Rhachilla.

Radula - The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

Ranula - A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Ravenala - A genus of plants related to the banana.

Receptacula - of Receptaculum

Rotula - The patella, or kneepan.

Septula - of Septulum

Sequela - One who, or that which, follows.

Sequela - An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.

Sequela - That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.

Sequela - A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

Reticula - of Reticulum

Retinacula - of Retinaculum

Retinula - One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Rhabdocoela - A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

Rhachilla - A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Rhinencephala - of Rhinencephalon

Rhizocephala - A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

Rhynchocephala - An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.

Rhynchocoela - Same as Nemertina.

Rhynchonella - A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.

Rosella - A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

Roseola - A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.

Rostella - of Rostellum

Rostrula - of Rostrulum

Rotella - Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

Rubella - An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

Rubeola - the measles.

Rubeola - Rubella.

Rupicola - A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

Sabadilla - A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.

Sabella - A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.

Saccharilla - A kind of muslin.

Sacella - of Sacellum

Salsola - A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Saltarella - See Saltarello.

Sapodilla - A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum.

Sappodilla - See Sapodilla.

Sarcocolla - A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.

Sarsaparilla - Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.

Sarsaparilla - The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.

Sassorolla - The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.

Savanilla - The tarpum.

Scagliola - An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

Scala - A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Scala - A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

Scaliola - Same as Scagliola.

Scapula - The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

Scapula - One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

Scintilla - A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.

Scopula - A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.

Scopula - A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.

Scrobicula - One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Scrofula - A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

Scutella - See Scutellum.

Scutella - See Scutellum, n., 2.

Scutella - of Scutellum

Scybala - Hardened masses of feces.

Scylla - A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.

Selaginella - A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.

Semiparabola - One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.

Semolella - See Semolina.

Serpula - Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

Serrula - The red-breasted merganser.

Setula - A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.

Shola - See Sola.

Sigilla - of Sigillum

Sigla - The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

Silicula - A silicle.

Tubercula - of Tuberculum

Sola - See Solus.

Sola - A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.

Solidungula - A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidae.

Sola - Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

Spatula - An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

Specula - of Speculum

Spicula - A little spike; a spikelet.

Spicula - A pointed fleshy appendage.

Spicula - of Spiculum

Spirula - A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.

Spongilla - A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.

Sportula - A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.

Squamella - A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Squamula - One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Squilla - Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

Stegocephala - An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

Stela - A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.

Stipula - A stipule.

Stipula - A newly sprouted feather.

Stola - A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

Stragula - of Stragulum

Strobila - A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.

Strobila - A mature tapeworm.

Subumbrella - The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.

Succula - A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.

Sula - A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.

Supermaxilla - The supermaxilla.

Supramaxilla - The upper jaw or maxilla.

Symphyla - An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.

Synapticula - One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.

Tabula - A table; a tablet.

Tabula - One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Taeniola - One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

Talegalla - A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

Tarantella - A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.

Tarantella - Music suited to such a dance.

Tarantula - Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.

Tarentula - See Tarantula.

Taurocolla - Glue made from a bull's hide.

Tegula - A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

Tenacula - of Tenaculum

Tentacula - of Tentaculum

Tequila - An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

Terebratula - A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

Tetracoralla - Same as Rugosa.

Tetrapla - A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

Thecla - Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin.

Tigella - That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

Tipula - Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

Tola - A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

Tortilla - An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Torula - A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

Trabecula - A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

Trehala - An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

Tremella - A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

Turbinella - A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

Turritella - Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

Ulula - A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species. See Illust. of Owl.

Umbrella - A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.

Umbrella - The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.

Umbrella - Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; -- called also umbrella shell.

Ungula - A hoof, claw, or talon.

Ungula - A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

Ungula - Same as Unguis, 3.

Urodela - An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

Ursula - A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.

Uvula - The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Vaginicola - A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

Vaginula - A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

Vaginula - One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

Valhalla - The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.

Valhalla - Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.

Vallecula - A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.

Vallecula - One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

Valla - of Vallum

Valvula - A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.

Vanilla - A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.

Vanilla - The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.

Varicella - Chicken pox.

Variola - The smallpox.

Vascula - of Vasculum

Velella - Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.

Vela - of Velum

Vesicula - A vesicle.

Vestibula - of Vestibulum

Vexilla - of Vexillum

Vibracula - of Vibraculum

Villa - A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.

Villanella - An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.

Vincula - of Vinculum

Viola - A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.

Viola - An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

Vitrella - One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.

Vorticella - Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

Walhalla - See Valhalla.