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n. 1. the family of arachnids of the order Acarina consisting of mites.
Syn. -- family Acaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Acarus. ] (Zool.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aridus, fr. arere to be dry: cf. F. aride. ] Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. “An arid waste.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Aridities [ L. ariditas, fr. aridus. ] 1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aridity; dryness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ascarides r Ascarids. [ NL. ascaris, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) A parasitic nematoid worm, especially the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates.
Syn. -- family Ascaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a roundworm having a preanal sucker.
Syn. -- genus Ascaridia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Cantharis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of large ostrichlike birds; the cassowaries.
Syn. -- family Casuaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a shrimp. ] (Zoöl.) An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impar unequal + digitus finger. ] (Anat.) Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The natural family of birds including the gulls and terns; the gull family.
Syn. -- family Laridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family including the snailfishes.
Syn. -- family Liparididae, family Liparidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Lucernaria. ] (Zool.) (a) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa. (b) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true Lucernarida and the Discophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family including the louvars.
Syn. -- family Luvaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ne`os new + &unr_;, &unr_;, a kind of crustacean. ] (Zool.) The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. palaio`s ancient + kari`s, -i`dos, a kind of crustacean. ] (Zool.) Same as Merostomata. [ Written also Palæocarida. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pari-, and Digitate. ] (Zool.) Same as Artiodactyla. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Having an even number of digits on the hands or the feet. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocœla. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ Mono- + saccharide. ] (Chem.) A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Also . (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a. [1913 Webster]