coalitus 
Coenocyte 
coalescence of petals causes that 
condition ; adj. coal’itus. 
coare’'tate, coarcta’tus (Lat., pressed 
together), crowded together; Coare’- 
ture, Coarctu’ra, Grew’s term for 
the neck or collum, the junction 
of root and stem at the level of the 
ground. 
Coat, the successive layers of a bulb; 
coat’ed, occurring in layers, usually 
of varying consistence, as the bark 
of a tree, the rind of fruits, etc. ;~ 
Bulb, a tunicated bulb. 
coax’ial (co for con, with, and avis, an 
axle), parallel with the axis, or 
having a common axis. 
Cob, the spike of maize. 
cobalti’nus (Mod. Lat.), the colour of 
cobalt, a light blue, azure. 
cob’'webbed, cob’webby, entangled 
with fine filaments, arachnoid. 
Coce’i, pl. of Coccus. 
Coccid’ium + (Kdxkos, a kernel or berry) 
=CystocarP ; coccif’erous (ero, I 
bear), bearing berries. 
cocciform’is (coccum, kermes, forma, 
shape), used by Koerber to denote 
Lichen spores shaped like the 
kermes, or insect which affords the 
scarlet dye from Quercus coccifera, 
Linn. ; coccinell’us, light scarlet in 
colour ; coccin’eus, scarlet, with a 
tendency towards carmine. 
coccochromat’ic (koxkos, a berry; 
xpwua, colour), colour distributed 
in granular patches, as in some 
diatoms, ¢f. PLACOCHROMATIC ; 
Cocco’des, spherical granulations 
resembling pills ; Coc’cogone, Cocco- 
go'nium (yov7, offspring), a propaga- 
tive cell of the nature of a sporan- 
gium in Cyanophyceae; cocc’oid, 
applied to amorphous colonies of 
propagative cells in Nostoc (Sauva- 
geau); Coc’colith (\iOos, stone), con- 
stituent plates of CoccospHEREs ; 
Coc’cosphere (ocpaipa, a sphere), 
spherical masses of protoplasmic 
origin, bearing coccoliths on their 
external surface, Coccosphaera 
leptopora, G. Murr. & Blackm. ; 
Coc’cule, Coc’culum, a portion of a 
divided Cocous ; Coc’cus, Coc’cum, 
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(1) part of a schizocarp or lobed 
fruit; (2) Coccus is also applied 
to the rounded bacteria. 
Coch’lea (cochlea, a snail or spoon), a 
closely coiled legume; coch’lear, 
cochlea’ris ; (1) spoon-shaped ; (2) 
used of a form of imbricate aesti- 
vation with one piece exterior 
cochlear’iform, cochlariform'is, 
spoon-shaped ; Cochlidiosperm’ata ¢ 
(orépya, seed), seeds convex on one 
side, concave on the other, from 
unequal growth or anomalous 
structure; coch’leate, cochlea’tus, 
shell-shape, in the manner of a 
snail-shell. 
Cod, = a seed pod; cod'like, follicu- 
lar; Cod’ware, an old word for 
pulse. 
Code’ine (xwéea, a poppy-head), an 
alkaloid in the opium poppy. 
cocks’combed, fasciated (Crozier). 
codiophyll'us (xwdiov, a fleece ; duddov, 
a leaf), when a leaf is covered with 
a woolly pubescence. 
Coelosperm’‘ae (xo? dos, hollow; o7épua, 
a seed), plants whose seeds have 
albumen curved at theends ; coelo- 
sperm’ous, coelosperm'us, hollow- 
seeded; used for the seed-like 
carpels of Umbelliferae, with 
ventral face incurved at the top 
and bottom, as in coriander ; 
Coenanth’‘ium (dévdos, a flower)= 
CLINANTHIUM. 
Coe’nobe = CoENOBIUM. 
Coeno’bium (kowvdBrov, a cloister) ; (1) 
the same as CARCERULE; (2) a 
colony of independent organisms 
united by a common investment, as 
Volvox, Pandorina, etc.; (3) fruits 
such as those of Labiates, consisting 
of distinct lobes but not terminated 
with a stigma; sometimes spelled 
CrNoBIuM, etc.; adj. coeno’biar, 
coenobia'ris, coenobio’neus ; coeno’- 
bioid (eléos, resemblance), like a 
coenobium. 
Coenoclad’ia (kxowds, in common; 
«Addos, a branch), natural grafting, 
where branches have grown to- 
gether ; Coen’ocyte («vros, a vessel), 
an aggregation of protoplasmic 
