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halophilous (halof'ilus) a. [Gk. hals, 

 salt ; philein, to love.] Salt-loving 

 (bot.}. 



halophyte (haloflt) n. [Gk. hals, 

 salt ; phyton, plant.] Shore plants ; 

 plants capable of thriving on salt- 

 impregnated soils (dot.}. 



halteres (hal'terez) n. plu. [Gk. 

 halter, weight used in jumping.] 

 A pair of small capitate bodies 

 representing the rudimentary pos- 

 terior wings in Diptera, which are 

 said to be balancers (zool.}. 



hamate (ham'at) a. [L. hamatus, 

 hooked.] Hooked or hooked- 

 shaped at the tip. 



hamatum (hama'tum) n. [L. hamatus, 

 hooked.] The unciform bone in 

 the carpus, probably corresponding 

 to the fourth arid fifth distalia of a 

 typical pentadactyl limb (zool.}. 



hamirostrate (ham'iros'trat) a. [L. 

 hamus, hook ; rostrum, beak.] 

 Having a hooked beak (zool.}. 



hamose (ha'mos) a. [L. hamus, hook.] 

 Hooked (dot.}. 



hamular (ham'ular) a. [L. hamus, 

 hook.] Hooked ; hook-like (zool.}. 



hamulus (ham'ulus) n. [L. hamulus, 

 little hook.] A hook, or hook-like 

 process (anat.} ; the minute hook- 

 like process on the distal barbules 

 which aid in the interlocking of the 

 barbs of a feather (zool.}. 



hapaxanthous (hap'aksan'thus) a. 

 [Gk. hapax, once ; anthos, flower.] 

 With only a single flowering period 

 (bot.}. 



haplocaulescent (hap'lokoles'ent) a. 

 [Gk. haploos, simple ; L. caulis, 

 stem.] With a simple axis, i.e., 

 capable of producing seed on the 

 main axis (tot.}, 



haplochlainydeous (hap'loklamid'eus) 

 a. [Gk. haploos, simple ; chlamys, 

 cloak.] Having rudimentary leaves 

 in connection with the sporophylls 

 (bot.}. 



haplodont (hap'lodont)tf. [G\a. haploos, 

 simple ; odous, tooth.] Having the 

 molars with simple crowns (zool.}. 



haploid (hap'loid) a. [Gk. kaploos, 

 simple ; eidos, like.] Having the 

 number of chromosomes character- 

 istic of the germ-cells for the 

 organism in question (biol.}. 



haploperistomous (hap'loperls'tomus) 



a. [Gk. haploos, simple ; peri, 

 around ; stoma, mouth.] Having 

 a peristome with a single row of 

 teeth ; appl. Mosses (hot.}. 



haplopetalous (hap'lopet'alus) a. [Gk. 

 haploos, simple ; petalon, petal.] 

 With a single row of petals (bot.}. 



haptera (hap'tera) n. plu. [Gk. hap- 

 tein, to fasten.] Special disc-like 

 outgrowths from the stem - like 

 portion of certain Algae, which 

 serve as organs of attachment 

 (dot.}. 



haptophores (hap'tof orz) n. plu. [Gk. 

 haptein, to fasten ; pherein, to carry.] 

 The combining qualities of the 

 molecule of a toxin ; cf. toxophores 

 (Phys.\ 



harmonic suture, an articulation 

 brought about by the apposition of 

 fairly smooth edges or surfaces 

 (anat.}. 



harmosone (har'moson) //. [Gk. 

 armozo, I regulate.] One of the 

 class of hormones which influence 

 growth (phys.}. 



HassaH's concentric corpuscles, 

 cell nests in the reticulum of the 

 thymus gland (anat.). 



hastate (has'tat) a. [L. hasta, spear.] 

 Spear-shaped, more or less tri- 

 angular with the two basal lobes 

 divergent (hot.}. 



haulm (horn) n. [A.S. healing The 

 stem of such plants as peas ; the 

 stem of a grass (bot.}. 



haustellate (hos'telat) a. [L. haurire, 

 to suck.] Having a proboscis 

 adapted for sucking (zool.}. 



haustellum(h6steTum) n. [L. haurire, 

 to suck.] A proboscis adapted for 

 sucking (zool.}. 



haustorial (hosto'rlal) a. [L. haurire, 

 to drink.] Pert, or resembling a 

 haustorium (bot.}. 



haustorium (hosto'riiim) n. [L. 

 haurire, to drink.] An outgrowth 

 of the stem of certain plants, which 

 serves as a means of drawing food 

 from the host plant (bot.}. 



haversian canals [ffavers, English 

 physician], the small canals in 

 bone in which the blood-vessels lie 

 (anat.}. 



head (hed) n. [AS. heafod.] The 

 anterior part of a vertebrate body 

 containing the brain, skull, eyes, 



