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{ } a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. -- n. One of the Cestoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. or It. custode, fr. L. custos, -odis. ] See Custodian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel, from &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. See Cyst. ] (Biol.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecto- + -derm. ] (Biol.) (a) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast. (b) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

{ } a. (Biol.) Of or relating to the ectoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ento- + Gr. &unr_; skin. ] (Biol.) See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

{ } a. (Biol.) Relating to the entoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_; + E. densimeter. ] Same as Galactometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gymno`s naked + E. cytode. ] (Biol.) A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Keratose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk + E. densimeter. ] A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; mucus + &unr_; a bladder. ] (Zool.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Same as Nematoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; -- they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. octodecim eighteen. See Octavo, Decimal, and -mo. ] Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Octodecimos A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18°, and called eighteenmo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Octo- + dentate. ] Having eight teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects.
Syn. -- Phasmida, order Phasmida, order Phasmatodea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a hide + &unr_; a skin. ] (Zool.) Same as Holothurioidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sextus-decimus the sixteenth; sextus the sixth (fr. sex six) + decimus the tenth, from decem ten. See -mo. ] Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sextodecimos A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16°. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. -- n. One of the Stomatoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]