WAR- 
warm-blooded,—a term @ff/. animals 
eoick have a fairly high and 
constant temperature which is 
above that of the surrounding 
medium. 
warning 
urs, — conspi icuous 
colours ona b als 
wearte, pete 
dry excrescence forme the 
a firm otacaiber pro- 
water-cells,— specializ ed cells in the 
stomach of the camel for storage 
of fluid (zoo/.). 
ater ure, ae nonce 
growing of plan ater to see 
the effect of Vfferent | salts on them 
(dot.). 
water - gland,—a structure in the 
mesophyll ures regulating 
through stomata 
water excretion 
(bot.). 
er - pore,—the minute ciliated 
opening through the actinal ~ 
of the oa of Antedon (zoo/.); a 
opening at the apex er a fend ite 
Blo By cicieeen of yee z.). 
ta,—pores on the sur- 
tora of Ry for the excretion of 
water (or. 
water - tube,—a ciliated branched 
tube connected with the ring-vessel 
_and — isch 0 bas 
m,—a system of 
spent gee rescues a watery fluid 
throughout the body = — 
derms ; also appli = the 
cretory system of Plaryhelminths 
tl) 2. [A.S. watel, bag.] 
eshy — usually red, 
under rn throat of a cock or 
zool.). 
wax (waks) z. [A.S. wear, wax.] A 
ee produced by bees and 
orm 
used in ing the honeycomb 
(zool.). 
wax —a wax-secreting cavity 
pocket, 
on the abdomen of the bee (zoo/.). 
web were ) nm. 
The 
oe 
S; ve oti : 
the fine network of divende spun by 
Spiders (zoo. 
webbed (wé bd) a. [A.S. webbe, web.] 
<a feet of swimming Birds owing 
548 
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the toes sed connected by a 
ame (zo 
Weberian <ocacana al apparatus 
atrium to the air-bladder in Cyprini- 
ep ool. = 
wedg e mall poarch 
olesiSicationis at the junct ; 
vertebrae, often mec = in P Gated 
zool.). 
(wis'manizm) 
n ee ] 
cape ge 
[ Weisman gti 
The teaching of Wei 
nection with Pos PiPre and heredity; 
chiefly dealing with the continuity 
the germ-plasm, — the non- 
a of acquired char- 
acteristic 
— (hwel) 7 [A.S. Awelian, to 
inflame. ] A long- —— shorten 
ae oe thickening 0 until 
fibre on stimulation (Ay. 
wheel organ,—the ocomotory-ciliated 
ring of Rotifer: =e the specialized 
ciliated epithelial structure in the 
buccal cavity of the Cephalochorda 
(zool.). 
white body,—the so-called optic 
gland of ———— a large soft body 
of unknown = n (zool.). 
white 
white yolk heres,—minute 
forming a daaoneped plug in the 
centre of - i yolk, and a layer 
in 
ets a singe ‘ol 
a flower arising 
eg — ans (bot. ‘, 
win —the fertilization 
- plants by re pata carried by the 
ind (do¢.) 
prs (wing [M.E. winge, wing.] 
One of two lateral petals in @ 
papilionaceous flower ; the lateral 
expansion many s (bot.) 5 
any —— aianen ous expansion ; 
e f Bir flight 
re- 
organ of fnbects (zool.). 
