·noun One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
·noun A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. II. Cone ·vt To render cone-shaped; to bev...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A solid figure having a circle for its base, and produced by the entire revolution of a right-angled...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle...
·adj Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed ...
·add. ·- A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces. ...
·- A pulley for driving machines, ·etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a...
·add. ·noun A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidae, often found in houses, ·esp. in the...
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
See can-buoys. ...
·noun An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants. ...
·noun The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America. ...
·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...