·- 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.
·noun An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants. ...
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·noun The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America. ...
·noun One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the pla...
·noun A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar,...
·noun A pseudo-dipteral temple. II. Pseudo-dipteral ·adj Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temp...
·noun False galena, or blende. ·see Blende (a). ...
·noun Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially...
·adj Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the mu...
·adj Falsely or imperfectly metallic; — said of a kind of luster, as in minerals. ...
·adj Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. ...
·adj Falsely romantic. ...
·adj Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry. ...
·noun A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, co...