Army worm () A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. |
Army worm () The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. |
Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
Family (v. t.) Course of descent |
Family (v. t.) Honorable descent |
Family (v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
Galley-worm (n.) A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides |
Grugru worm () The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy. |
Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. |
Worm (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals |
Worm (n.) Any helminth |
Worm (n.) Any annelid. |
Worm (n.) An insect larva. |
Worm (n.) Same as Vermes. |
Worm (n.) An internal tormentor |
Worm (n.) A being debased and despised. |
Worm (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm |
Worm (n.) The thread of a screw. |
Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. |
Worm (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog |
Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. |
Worm (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below. |
Worm (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. |
Worm (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means |
Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm |
Worm (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. |
Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable |
Worm-eaten (a.) Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms |
Worm-eaten (a.) Worn-out |
Worm-shaped (a.) Shaped like a worm |
Worm-shell (n.) Any species of Vermetus. |
Zoological (a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals. |
family practice family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
bacteria family | a family of bacteria |
Rhizobiaceae family Rhizobiaceae | a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
Bacillaceae family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
Myxophyceae family Myxophyceae Schizophyceae family Schizophyceae | former terms for Cyanophyceae |
Nostocaceae family Nostocaceae | blue-green algae |
Oscillatoriaceae family Oscillatoriaceae | blue green algae |
Pseudomonodaceae family Pseudomonodaceae | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria, include important plant and animal pathogens |
Athiorhodaceae family Athiorhodaceae | small motile sulphur bacteria |
Nitrobacteriaceae family Nitrobacteriaceae | usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria |
Thiobacteriaceae family Thiobacteriaceae | free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds |
Spirillaceae family Spirillaceae | rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria |
Bacteroidaceae family Bacteroidaceae | family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals, sometimes associated with acute infective processes |
Corynebacteriaceae family Corynebacteriaceae | a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Enterobacteriaceae family Enterobacteriaceae | a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Rickettsiaceae family Rickettsiaceae | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates |
Chlamydiaceae family Chlamydiaceae | Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates |
Mycoplasmataceae family Mycoplasmataceae | pleomorphic Gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria, parasitic in mammals |
Actinomycetaceae family Actinomycetaceae | filamentous anaerobic bacteria |
Streptomycetaceae family Streptomycetaceae | higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes |
Mycobacteriaceae family Mycobacteriaceae | a family of bacteria |
Polyangiaceae family Polyangiaceae Myxobacteriaceae family Myxobacteriaceae | bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung |
Micrococcaceae family Micrococcaceae | spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment, includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes |
Lactobacillaceae family Lactobacillaceae Lactobacteriaceae family Lactobacteriaceae | lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens, bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid |
Spirochaetaceae family Spirochaetaceae | large coarsely spiral bacteria, free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters |
Treponemataceae family Treponemataceae | small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic |
protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista |
Endamoebidae family Endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Globigerinidae family Globigerinidae | a family of protoctists |
Nummulitidae family Nummulitidae | a family of fossil protoctists |
Arcellidae family Arcellidae | soil and freshwater protozoa, cosmopolitan in distribution |
Tribonemaceae family Tribonemaceae | simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae |
Laminariaceae family Laminariaceae | large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters |
Fucaceae family Fucaceae | small family of brown algae: gulfweeds, rockweeds |
Euglenaceae family Euglenaceae | considered green algae |
Ulvaceae family Ulvaceae sea-lettuce family | thin flat or tubular green algae |
Volvocaceae family Volvocaceae | unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates |
Chlamydomonadaceae family Chlamydomonadaceae | green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome |
Zygnemataceae family Zygnemataceae | pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses |
Oedogoniaceae family Oedogoniaceae | filamentous green algae |
Characeae family Characeae | green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts |
Desmidiaceae family Desmidiaceae | unicellular algae |
Gigartinaceae family Gigartinaceae | a family of protoctist |
Rhodymeniaceae family Rhodymeniaceae | a family of protoctist |
Bangiaceae family Bangiaceae | a family of protoctist |