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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



Land. Having two hands. The 

 first family of the class of mam- 

 mp^-t. 



BIMA I^INATE. Furnished with a 

 double margin, as far as the lip. 



BINE RVATE. Two-nerved ; as the 

 wings of certain insects. 



BIN'OCULAR. Having two eyes. 



BIO'CELLATE. Having two eyelets, 

 or eye^like spots. 



BIOCULA'TA. fr. lat. bis, two 5 oculus, 

 an eye. Two-eyed. 



BI'NATE. fr. lat. bis, two ; natus, 

 grown. A form of leaf composed 

 of two leaflets. 



BIPA'RTITE. Parted in two. 



BI'PED. fr. lat. bis, twice; pes, foot. 

 Animals that walk on two feet 

 are biped. 



BIPE'CTINATE. Having two mar- 

 gins toothed like a pecten or comb. 



BIPE'DES. Lat. plur.; from bis, two; 

 pes, foot. Having two feet. Ap- 

 plied to saurians that have abdo- 

 minal extremities alone. 



BIPEI/TATE. Having a defence like 

 a double pelta or shield. 



BIPHO'RA. fr. gr. bis, double ; phoreo, 

 I bear. A genus of tunicate mol- 

 lusks. (p. 90, /ig. 114, Book v). 



BIPHO'RA. Plur. of Biphora. 



BIPIN'NATE. Doubly pinnate. When 

 both the leaf and its subdivisions 

 are pinnate. 



BIPINNATIFID. Twice pinnatifid. 

 Both the leaf and its segments 

 being pinnatifid. 



BIPT/PULATE. Having an eye-like 

 spot with two dots within it, as 

 on the wing of a butterfly. 



BIRA'DIATE. Having two rays. 



BISCU'TATE. fr. lat. bis, two ; scuta, 

 shields. Resembling two buck- 

 lers, placed side by side. 



BI-SERRATE. Doubly serrate. 



BISE'TOUS. Having two setae. 



BISE'XUAL. Having both sexes. 



BISPI'NOSE. Having two spines. 



BISU'LCATE. Applied to a foot which 

 rests upon two sulci or hoofed 

 digits. 



BITE'RNATE. Doubly ternate. The 



petiole supporting three ternate 

 leaves. 



BITU'MEN. fr. gr. pitus, the pitch- 

 tree ; because it resembles pitch. 

 A variety of inflammable mineral 

 substances, which, like pitch, is 

 included under this term. 



BITU'MENIZED. Converted into bi- 

 tu'men. 



BITU'MINOUS. Of the nature of bi- 

 tumen. 



BITU'MINOUS SHALE. A slaty rock 

 containing bitumen. 



BI'VALVE. fr. lat. bis, two; valves. 

 doors. Having two doors. Shells 

 composed of two pieces united 

 by a hinge are termed bivalves. 



BLADED. When a mineral is com- 

 posed of long and narrow plates 

 or laminae, like the blade of a 

 knife, it is said to have a bladed 

 structure. 



BLAND. Fair, beautiful. 



BLASTE'MA fr. gr. blastano, to bud. 

 The rudamental mass of an organ 

 in a state of formation. 



BLASTOCA'UPOUS. fr. gr. blastos, a 

 shoot ; karpos, fruit. Applied to 

 those plants in which germina- 

 tion takes place within the fruit 

 before it falls, as in the mangrove. 



BLA'STUS. fr. gr. blastos, a shoot. A 

 term sometimes applied to the 

 plumule of grasses. 



BLENDE. fr. eer. blenden, to dazzle. 

 Sulphuret of zinc, a common shin- 

 ing zinc ore. Black j nek of Eng- 

 lish miners. 



BLOTCHED. Spotted in an irregular 

 way. 



BLUBBER. That part of a whale 

 from which the oil is obtained. 



BLUFFS. High banks, presenting a 

 precipitous front to the sea or a 

 river. 



BLUMENBA'CHII. The name of Blu- 

 menbach latinized. 



BLUNT. Obtuse ; not acute. 



BOG-EARTH. An earth composed of 

 light siliceous sand, and about 25 

 .per cent, of vegetable fibre in a 

 decomposing state. 



