Pseudo- |
A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively. |
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Pseudo-bulb |
An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants. |
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Pseudo-china |
The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America. |
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Pseudo-cumene |
A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid. |
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Pseudo-dipteral |
Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. |
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Pseudo-dipteral |
A pseudo-dipteral temple. |
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Pseudo-galena |
False galena, or blende. See Blende (a). |
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Pseudo-heart |
Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system. |
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Pseudo-hyperthophic |
Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat. |
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Pseudo-metallic |
Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals. |
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Pseudo-monocotyledonous |
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. |
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Pseudo-romantic |
Falsely romantic. |
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Pseudo-symmetric |
Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry. |
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Pseudo-symmetry |
A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite. |
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Cone |
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. |
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Cone |
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. |
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Cone |
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base. |
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Cone |
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. |
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Cone |
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels. |
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Cone-in-cone |
Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks. |
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