GLOSSARY. 



Fuliginous. Of opaque black, or sooty. 



Fulvous. Of a tawny or dull yellow 

 color. 



Fumous. Colored as if tinged with 

 smoke. 



Function. The peculiar or appropriate 

 action of a member or part of the body 

 by which the animal economy is car 

 ried on ; as, the functions of the brain 

 and nerves, &c. 



Fungus. A spongy excrescence in ani- 

 mal bodies ; any morbid excrescence. 



Funicular. Consisting of a small cord 

 ligature, or fibre. 



Funiculate. When the post-fraenum 

 forms a narrow ridge. 



Furcate. Divided at the end into two 

 prongs or branches. 



Furcula. A forked bone in the upper 

 part of the breast of a bird, familiarly 

 called the merrythought, when speaking 

 of the joint of a fowl at table. 



Furfuraceous. Scurfy; scaly. 



Fuscous. Of a dull dark-brown color. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped; swelling in 

 the middle, and rather tapering to each 

 end: whose vertical section is lanceo- 

 late or lineari-lanceolate, and horizon- 

 tal circular. 



G. 



Galeated. Having feathers on the head 

 which in shape appear like a hel- 

 met. 



Gallinaceous. Belonging to the order 

 Gallince, which includes domestic poul- 

 try, pheasants, &c. 



Galloway. A sm all-sized species of horse, 

 bred in Galloway, in Scotland. 



Ganglion. A mass of nervous matter, 

 forming a centre from which nervous 

 fibres radiate. 



Gangrene. Mortification of some part of 

 a living animal body. 



Gangrenescent. Tending to putrefaction, 

 as living flesh in a diseased state. 



Gaping. When the margins of bivalve 

 shells do not meet all round, they are 

 said to gape. 



Garous. Resembling pickle made of 

 fish. 



Gasteropodous. Belonging to the Gaste- 

 ropoda, a class of molluscous animals 



distinguished by having the locomo- 

 tive organ attached to the under part 

 of the body. 



Gastric. Belonging to the stomach ; as 

 the gastric juice, which is the principal 

 agent in digestion. 

 Gazehound. A hound that pursues by 



the sight rather than by the scent. 

 Gelatine. A concrete animal substance, 

 transparent, and soluble slowly in cold 

 water, but rapidly in warm water. 

 Gelatinous. Composed of a jelly-like 

 substance ; being moderately stiff and 

 cohesive. 



Gemilliparous. Producing twins. 

 Geminated. Marked with a double ele- 

 vated stria connecting the wreaths, as 

 in certain shells. 

 Geminous. When there is a pair of 



spots, tubercles, puncta, &c. 

 Gemmiparous. Endued with the power 

 of propagation from the growth of the 

 young, like a bud from the parent. 

 Gemmules. The embryos of the radiated 

 animals at that stage when they re- 

 semble ciliated monads. 

 Generate. To procreate ; as, every ani- 

 mal generates his own species. 

 Generic. Pertaining to a genus or kind, 

 as distinct from species or from an- 

 other genus ; thus, a generic name is 

 the denomination which comprehends 

 all the species ; Cam's, for example, is 

 the generic name of animals of the dog 

 kind ; Felis, of the cat kind ; Struthis 

 is the generic name of birds of the 

 ostrich kind ; Hirundo, that of swal- 

 lows. 



Geniculated. Having joints like the 

 knee, bent so as to form a knee or 

 angle. 



Jenus (pi. Genera). An assemblage of 

 species possessing certain characters 

 in common, by which they are distin- 

 guished from all others. It is subordi- 

 nate to class and order, and in some 

 arrangement, to tribe and family. A 

 single species, possessing certain pecu- 

 liar characters which belong to no 

 other species, may also constitute a 

 genus ; as the giraffe. 

 reognostic. Pertaining to a knowledge 

 of the structure of the earth. 

 Geological. Relating to the substances 



