Air bladder
() An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus. |
Air bladder
() A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant |
Alpine
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain |
Alpine
(a.) Like the Alps |
Avignon berry
() The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus |
Berry
(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. |
Berry
(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. |
Berry
(n.) The coffee bean. |
Berry
(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish. |
Berry
(v. i.) To bear or produce berries. |
Berry
(n.) A mound |
Bladder
(n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid |
Bladder
(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. |
Bladder
(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. |
Bladder
(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. |
Bladder
(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air |
Bladder
(v. t.) To put up in bladders |
Botanical
(a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
Brittle
(a.) Easily broken |
Brittle star
() Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea. |
Bulblet
(n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion. |
Female fern
() a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries |
Fern
(adv.) Long ago. |
Fern
(a.) Ancient |
Fern
(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
Fragile
(a.) Easily broken |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Hare's-foot fern
() A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
Mountain
(n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land |
Mountain
(n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations |
Mountain
(n.) A mountainlike mass |
Mountain
(a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains |
Mountain
(a.) Like a mountain |
Oso-berry
(n.) The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceae. |
Poly-mountain
(n.) Same as Poly, n. |
Poly-mountain
(n.) The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. |
Poly-mountain
(n.) The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe. |
Salal-berry
(n.) The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color. |
Sea fern
() Any gorgonian which branches like a fern. |
Stag-horn fern
() See under Stag. |
mountain climbing
mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter
genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium
genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium
genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
| genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
| genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
| genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
| genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas
genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas
genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter
genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas
genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
| genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides
genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium
genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella
genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
| genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
| genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
| genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia
Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
| genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
| genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
| genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
| genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
| genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium
genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus
genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
| genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
| genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
| genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta
genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
| genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
| genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
| genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
| protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
| genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |
Endamoeba
genus Endamoeba | the type genus of the family Endamoebidae |