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adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archegonium.
Syn. -- archegonial [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing archegonia.
Syn. -- archegonial [ PJC ]

n. [ From Michel Begon, a promoter of botany. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
Syn. -- family Begoniaceae, begonia family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; angle. ] (Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a coral which hardens in the air. ] (Zool.) 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any slender branched gorgonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Gorgonia. ] (Zool.) One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cœnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cœnenchyma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Gorgoneus. ] 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Gorgoniacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tuberous or semi-tuberous South African begonia (Begonia dregei) having shallowly lobed ovate leaves and small white flowers.
Syn. -- grape-leaf begonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A resident of Oregon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Having acute angles. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n. A native of Patagonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; a kind of grasshopper. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Trigon. So called in allusion to the triangular shape of some species. ] (Zool.) A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia. [ 1913 Webster ]