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GLOSSARY. 



Purulent. Consisting of or resembling 

 pus or matter. 



Putrescent. Pertaining to the process of 

 putrefaction. 



Pylorus. The aperture which leads 

 from the stomach to the intestine. 



Pyramidal Whose vertical section is 

 triangular, and horizontal quadrangu- 

 lar. 



Pyriform. Pear-shaped. 



Q. 



Quadrate. To agree or correspond with. 

 Square. Quadrilateral, with the sides 

 equal and the angles right angles. 



Quadrennial. Occurring once in four 

 years. 



Quadriarticulate. Consisting of four 

 joints. 



Quadridental Having four teeth. 



Quadrifid. Cleft in four parts. 



Quadripartite. Consisting of four cor- 

 responding parts. 



Quadriplicated. Having four plaits or 

 folds. 



Quadrivalvular. Having four valves. 



Quadrumanous. Having four hands. 



Quadruped. Having four legs and feet. 

 An animal having four legs and feet, 

 as a horse, a lion, &c. 



Quarry. In falconry, the game which 

 a hawk is pursuing or has killed. 

 Among hunters, a part of the entrails 

 of the beast taken, given to the Jiounds. 



Quiescent. Being in a state of repose. 



E. 



Race. A particular breed. 



Racemous. Growing in racemes or clus- 

 ters. 



Radial. Pertaining to the radius or to 

 the fore-arm of the human body ; as, 

 the radial muscles. 



Radiata. Animals in which the organs 

 of sensation and motion are disposed 

 like rays round a centre ; the lowest 

 primary division of the animal king- 

 dom. 



Radiate. When a dot, spot, &c. appears 

 to send forth rays, as the large blue 

 area common to all the wings of Pa- 

 pilio Ulysses. 



Radiated (areolets). When the areolets 

 are chiefly formed by radiating longi- 

 tudinal nervures. 



Radicated (shell). When fixed by the 

 base to another body. 



Radius. In entomology, a single subdi- 

 vision of a digitate wing ; i. e. when 

 the wings are cleft to the base into 

 several subdivisions. 



Ram. The male of the sheep or ovine 

 genus. 



Ramification. A shooting out into 

 branches. 



Ramify. To. shoot into branches. 



Ramose. Spread out into branches. An- 

 tennae are so called when setaceous or 

 moniliform, but having long branches 

 from several of the joints. 



Rapacious. Subsisting on prey or ani- 

 mals seized by force. 



Rarefy. To make thin and porous, or 

 less dense. 



Reanimate. To resuscitate ; to restore to 

 life and action. 



Reclined. Leaning towards any thing as 

 if to repose upon it. 



Recondite. When the head of an insect 

 is wholly covered and sheltered by the 

 shield of the thorax. 



Recrement. Superfluous matter separated 

 from that which is useful. 



Recrementitious. Consisting of superflu- 

 ous matter separated from that which 

 is valuable. 



Rectangular. Having right angles. 



Rectum. The third and last of the large 

 intestines. 



Recumbent. Leaning or reposing upon 

 any thing. 



Recurrent. When a nervure, or a branch 

 of it, after running towards the apex 

 of the wing, turns back and runs to- 

 wards the base. 



Recurved; Recurvated. Turned or curved 

 outwards. 



Recurvirostral. Pertaining to those birds 

 whose beak or bill bends upwards. 



Refracted. Abruptly bent, as if broken. 



Rejected. Bent back or thrown back- 

 wards. 



Reflex ; Reflexed. Turned or bent back 

 or upwards. 



Refluent. Flowing back; as, refluent 

 blood. 



