azoual 



Band 



azo'nal (a, not, &vi}, girdle), C . Mac- 

 millan's term for Plant-associations 

 which show no well-marked radial 

 symmetry ; Azote' (far], life), La- 

 voisier's name for nitrogen, still 

 used in French works; azo'tised, 

 compounded with nitrogen. 



Az'ure azu'reus (late Lat., sky-blue), 

 blue as the sky. 



Azy'gosperm, (a, not, vyos, a yoke, 

 (rirep(j.a, seed), a synonym of Azy'- 

 gospore (wopa, seed), the growth 

 of a gamete direct without con- 

 jugation, a parthenogenetic spore ; 

 az'ygous, unpaired, as a leaflet 

 which is not matched on the oppo- 

 site side of the rhachis. 



Bac'ca (Lat.), a berry, a succulent 

 fruit with seeds immersed in the 

 pulp, as the Gooseberry; ~ cor- 

 tica'ta, berry with a rind, the term 

 has been applied to the ovary ; ~ 

 sicc'a,t succulent while unripe, dry 

 when mature; ~ spu'rla,! any 

 fleshy fruit which is not a true 

 berry, as raspberry and strawberry; 

 bac'cate, bacca'tus, berried; "se- 

 mina baccata," seeds having a 

 pulpy skin, as in Cycas ; Baccau- 

 lar'is, Baccaularlus, J (deriv. ?), 

 Desvaux's name for CARCERULE ; 

 Baccau'sus = ETAERIO ; Bacce'tum, 

 Dumortier's term for SYNCARP ; 

 bacciferous, bac'cifer, (fero, I 

 bear), berry-bearing, the fruit a 

 berry, usually applied when the 

 normal fruit of the genus is 

 otherwise ; bac'ciform, bacciform'is 

 (forma, shape), like a berry in 

 shape. 



BaciU'us, pi. BaciU'i (bacillum, a 

 staff), (1) J young bulb; (2) the 

 frustules of certain Diatomaceae, 

 as Bacillaria ; (3) rod -shaped Bac- 

 teria ; bac'illar, bacilla'ris, bacil'li- 

 form, (forma, shape), rod- or club- 

 shaped. 



Back, that side which is turned from 

 the part or substratum to which 

 an organ is attached ; the dorsal 

 surface. 



Bacte'rlum, pL Bacte'ria (paKryptov, a 



small staff), Cohn's name for low 

 forms of organic life, multiplying 

 by fission, Schizomycetes ; bac'- 

 teroid (ef5os, resemblance), re- 

 sembling bacteria ; ~ Tissue, ap- 

 plied to the root-tubercles of 

 various plants ; Bac'teroids or Bac- 

 ter'ioids, organisms found in nitri- 

 fying tubercles on the roots of 

 plants, especially Leguminosae, at- 

 tributed to the action of bacteria ; 

 Bacteriol'ogy (Xifyos, discourse), the 

 science of the life history of bac- 

 teria ; Bacte'rio - pur'purin, the 

 purple colouring matter of some 

 bacteria ; Bacterio'sis, disease due 

 to the attack of bacteria. 



baculiferous (baculum, a staff; fero, 

 I bear), bearing canes or reeds ; 

 bac aliform, bacidiform'is (forma, 

 shape), stick-shaped, rod-like, as 

 the ascospores of certain Lichens. 



bad'ious, bad'ius (Lat.), dark reddish- 

 brown ; chestnut-brown. 



Balus'tra, " sometimes applied to 

 fruits like the pomegranate" 

 (Crozier). 



Balaus'ta (/3aXcu'<moj>, pomegranate 

 flower), the fruit of Punica Orana- 

 turn, Linn., with firm rind, berried 

 within, crowned with the lobes of 

 an adnate calyx. 



bald, destitute of pubescence or downy 

 appendages. 



Bale J (Fr. Bale), cited by S. F. Gray 

 for the outer glume of grasses. 



Ball'ing, in nuclear development, the 

 fusion of nuclei into one nucleus. 



Balm (jSdXo-ayitoj', balsam), pr. Bahm, 

 a thick, usually resinous exudation 

 of reputed medical efficacy; Bal'sam, 

 pr. Bawls'm ; a similar exudation, 

 generally of resin mixed with 

 volatile oil ; balsamic, having the 

 qualities of balsam ; balsamif erous, 

 -rus, (fero, I bear), producing 

 balsam. 



Bamb/oo, the name applied to the 

 culm of arborescent grasses, not- 

 ably species of Bambusa. 



Band, (1) space between two ridges in 

 the fruit of Umbellifers ; (2) a stripe 

 generally ; ~ shaped, used of long 



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