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TRANSFIGURED. Changed in form. 

 TRANSFORMED. Changed in form or external 



appearance. 

 TRANSFUSED. Poured or transferred from 



one vessel into another. 

 TRANSLUCENT. TKANSLUCID. Transparent ; 



clear. 

 TRANSMARINE. Living or being beyond the 



sea. 

 TRANSMIORATORY. Passing from one place, 



body, or slate to another. 

 TRANSMITTED. Caused or suffered to pan 



through ; as, sound is transmitted by mcuns 



of vibrations of the air. 

 TRANSPIRE. To exhale ; to pass off by in- 

 sensible perspiration. 

 TRANSUDK. To puss through the pores or 



interstices of texture, as perspirable matter 



or other fluid. 

 TRANSVERSE. Crossing each other : when 



the longitudinal line is cut through at 



right angles. 

 | TRAPEZATE. Quadrilateral with the four 



sides unequal, and none of them perfectly 



parallel. 



TRAPEZIFORM. Shaped like a trapezium. 

 TRAi'Ezoio. Quadrilateral with two sidea 



unequal and parallel. 

 TREAD. To step or walk; to copulate, as 



fowls. 



TREMATODA. The order of Eutozoa cha- 

 racterized by buctoriul pores. 

 TRENCHANT. Sharp ; cutting ; as treiichant 



claws. 



TRICHOTOMOUS. Divided Into three parts. 

 TKIDACTYLE. Three-fingered. 

 TRIDACTYLOUS. Having three toea. 

 TRIDENTATE. Having three teeth. 

 TRIEDRAL. Haying three sides. 

 TRIFORM. Having a triple form or shape. 

 TRIGONAL. Having three angles. 

 TRILOBATE. Divided into three lobes. 

 TRIPARTITE. Divided into three parU. 

 TRI PEDAL. Having three feet. 

 TRIQUETROUS. Whose /horizontal sections 



are equilateral triangles. 

 TRIRADIATK. Consisting of three spokes or 



rays. 



TRIRADIATED. Having three rays. 

 TRITURATE. To reduce to a very fine pow- 

 der by pulverization. 

 TRIVALVULAR. Having three valves. 

 TKOGLODYTICAL. Resembling, in mode of 



life, the Troglodytes, a. people of Ethiopia, 



whom the aiicieuts represented as living 



in caves. 

 TROPHI. The parts of the mouth (in insects) 



employed in acquiring and preparing the 



TROPICAL. Pertaining to or being within 



the tropics ; as, tropical climates, winds, 



fee. 

 TROT. The quick pace of a horse or other 



quadruped, when he lifts one fore foot and 



the hind foot of the opposite side. 

 TRUNCATE (.elytra). When they are shorter 



than the abdomen and transverse at the 



end. 

 TRUNCATED. Cut off short, or terminating 



abruptly. 

 TRUTTACEOUS. Belonging to fish of the 



Trout kind. 

 TUIJEKCLE. A little pimple-like knob. 



Tl'liKRCL'LAU. TUKERCULOUS. Full of knot* 



or pimples. 

 TuBERffLATE. Covered with small pro- 



tutarances. 



TUBEROSITIES. Prominent knots or ex- 

 crescences. 



TUBICOLAU. Inhabiting a tube. 

 TUBULAR. In the shape of a tube ; hollow 



and cylindrical. 



TUBULATE. TUBULOUS. Hollow. 

 TUBUI.OSK. When the tongue of an insect 



emerge* from the labium, is long and tu- 

 bular, and capable of inflation. 

 TUFT. A bunch of feathers or hairs. 

 TUMID. Protuberant ; enlarged or distended. 

 TUMULAR. Formed into a heap or hillock. 

 TUNICATA. The class of acephalous Mol- 



lusca which are enveloped in an elastic 



tunic not defended by a shell. 

 TUNICATKD. Coated. 

 TUKBINATE. Tup-shaped, triangular with 



curved sides. 

 TUHBINATED. Wreathed conically from a 



larger babe to a kind of apex ; as turbinatcd 



shells. 

 TURBINIFORM. Whose vertical section ia 



turbinate, and Jkortontoi circular. 

 TUROIU. Swollen. 

 TURRETKD. When the head of an insect is 



producted into a kind of columnar recurved 



turret or rostrum, in the sides of which, 



towards the end, the eyes are fixed. 

 TURRILITE. The fossil remains of a spiral 



multilocular shell. 

 TYMPANUM. The drum of the car. 

 TYPE. A general form, such as ia common 



to the specks of a genus, or the individuals 



of a species. 

 TYPIFIED. Figured, or represented by a 



model form, or resemblance. 



UBIQUITY. Existence in all places or every 



where at the same time. 

 ULOINIOUS. Muddy ; oozy ; slimy. 

 ULNAR. Pertaining to the ulna -, as, the 



ulnar nerve. 

 ULTRAMARINE. Situated or beyond the sea. 



Also, the name of a beautiful and durable 



sky-blue colour, formed of the mineral 



called lapis lazuli. 



UMBILICAL. Pertaining to the navel. 

 UMBILICATED. Having a depression in the 



centre like a navel. 

 UMBILICUS. A hole, either deep or shallow, 



on the side of the inner lip in spiral shells, 



formed by the inner edges of the whorls 



not touching each other. 

 UMBLES. The entrails of a deer. 

 UUBO (in bivalve shells). The prominent 



part which turns over the hinge. 

 UMBONATE. Bossed ; having a raised knob 



in the centre. 

 UMBRACULATE. When there ia upon the 



head of insects au umbrella-shaped pro- 

 cess. 

 UNCINATED. Set or covered with bent spines 



like hooka. 

 UNCTUOUS. Fat ; oily; having a resemblance 



to oil or grease. 

 UNDERGROUND. Below the surface of the 



earth. 



UNDIAPIIONOUS. Not pellucid. 

 UNDOSE. Having undulating nearly paral- 



