Fseudochromidoidei 
Pseudochromidoidei (su-do-krom-i-doi'de-i), 
. pi. [NL.] Same as Pseudochromididae. 
Meeker, 1859. 
Pseudochrorais (su-dok'ro-mis), . [NL. (RUp- 
pell, 1837), < Gr. TJtevtf/c, false, + xptptf, a kind 
of sea-fish.] The typical genus of the family 
Psi'iidochromididse. 
pseudochrysalis (su-do-kris'a-lis), . Same as 
pseudojntpa. 
pseudo-citizen (su-do-sit'i-zn), n. One who 
falsely lays claim to the right of citizenship. 
Some indeed hold that he who Is unjustly a citizen U a 
pneudueitizfii, a mere counterfeit. 
(/UK?*, tr. of Aristotle, II. 15. (Jodrett.) 
pseudo-classicism (su-do-klas'i-sizm), . A 
false or affected classicism. 
An Increasing number of persons were perverse enough 
to feel [a difficulty in readlngl . . . the productions of a 
peeudoclasnirixin, the classicism of red heels and periwigs. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 391. 
pseudocoele (su'do-sel), n. [< Gr. V>w%, false, 
+ Koi'/.of, hollow.] In zool., a certain cavity of 
some invertebrates: better eaMedpseudoccelom. 
The adult body cavity comes entirely from pseudocode. 
Adam Sedgwick, Micros. Science, XXVII. 491. 
pseudoccelic (su-do-se'lik), a. Of or pertaining 
to the pseudoccele. 
This statement applies also to the heart and pericar- 
dium. These are both ptrudocaelic. 
Adam Sedgwiek, Micros. Science, XXVII. 491. 
pseudocoelom (su-do-se'lom), n. [< Gr. \l>tv6i/f, 
false, + Kofi.upa, a hollow, cavity: see ceelonui.] 
Same as pxeudoecele. 
pseudocolumella (su-do-kol-u-mel'S), n.; pi. 
pseudoeoliimcllte (-e). In corals, a kind of false 
columella formed by the twisting together of 
the inner ends of septa ; a parietal or septal 
columella. 
The more prominent septa extend to the centre of the 
corallite, ami then either unite evenly by their free inner 
margins or curve round each other to a slight extent, 
thus forming a structure to which the name of itneudn- 
<<>! a n" l>>i has been given. 
Quart. Jour. Oral. Soc., XLIV. 210. 
pseudocolumellar (su'do-kol-u-mel'ftr), . 
Pertaining to a pseudocolumella. 
pseudoconimissura (su-do-kom-i-su'ra), H.; pi. 
ptetidocommissurm (-re). Same as psfwliifnui- 
missure. Wilder and Gage, Anat. Tech., p. 420. 
pseudocoiuinissiiral (su-do-ko-mis'u-val), a. 
Of or pertaining to a pseudocommissure: as, 
pseudocom i ixxitral fibers. 
pseudocommissure (su-do-kom'i-sur), . A 
sort of commissure, formed of connective tissue, 
between the olfactory lobes of some batrachi- 
ans, as the frog. Also pseitdocommixsura. 
pseudoconcha (su-do-kong'kft). . ; pi. pseudo- 
conehie (-ke). [NL.', < Gr. i/>nj(%, false, + i;- 
X>i, a shell : see conch.] An alinasal turbinated 
structure in the, nose of birds, in front of and 
below the turbinal proper, connected with the 
internasal septum, and separating the vesti- 
bule of the nose from the internal nasal cavity. 
Gcgeitbaiir, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 547. 
pseudocorneous (su-do-kor'ne-us), a. Partly 
or somewhat horny, as the mass of agglutinat- 
ed hairs of the deciduous horns of the Ameri- 
can antelope, which form the base of the horn- 
sheath and gradually change into true horn 
toward the tip of those organs. 
pseudocortex (sii-do-kor'teks), n. [NL., < Gr. 
Tfifv6f/(, false, + L. cortex, bark.] In hot., an ag- 
glomeration of secondary branches in the t'lo- 
ridcee, originating at the nodes, and closely ad- 
pressed to the main or axial branch of a frond, 
forming a false cortex. 
pseudocosta (su-do-kos'ta), w. ; pi. psendocoxtte 
(-te). [< Gr. V f i'<%, false, + L. costa, rib.] 
One of the flattened or rounded interspaces 
which stand out in slight relief between the 
septa of some corals. Qiuirt. Jour. Geol. Soc., 
XLIV. 213. 
pseudocostate (su-do-kos'tat), a. [< Gr. V- 
(5i?f. false, + L. costa, rib: see costa, costate.] 
1. In hot., false-ribbed: said of leaves in which 
the true veins are confluent into a marginal or 
intramarginal rib or vein, as in many Myrtaceee. 
2. In :ool., having pseudocosta?, as a coral. 
pseudocotyledont (su-do-kot-i-le'don), n. In 
hot., one of the germinating threads of the 
spores of cryptogams. The name was formerly so 
employed on the supposition that these threads were in a 
measure analogous to the cotyledons of phanerogams, but 
is not now in use. 
pseudocrisis (su-do-kri'sis), .; p\. pseudocrises 
(-sez). In pathol., a sudden remission of tem- 
perature, resembling a crisis, but followed im- 
mediately by a return to the previous fever, as 
may occur in croupous pneumonia. 
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pseudo-critic (su-do-krit'ik), w. 
or would-be critic. 
A pretended 
The greatest hurt those poetasters and pteudo-eritida 
did him was pretending to Itx things on him of which he 
was not author. Ayre, Pope (ed. 1754), I. 247. (Jodrett.) 
pseudo-croup (su'do-krSp), n. False croup; 
laryngismus stridulus. 
pseudocyclosis (su'do-si-klo'sis), n. The ap- 
parent circulation of food in an amceba, super- 
ficially resembling cyclosis. Wallich. 
pseudocyesis (su'do-si-e'sis), n. Spurious preg- 
nancy. 
pseudocyst (su'do-sist), . [< Gr. y*w%, false, 
+ (cfoTif, a bladder: see cyst.'] In hot., one of 
many more or less imperfectly spherical bodies 
produced by the breaking up of the protoplasm 
of the filaments in certain of the Protopliyta. 
pseudodeltidium (su'do-del-tid'i-um), n.: pi. 
pseudodeltidia (-a). In Brachiopoda, a false 
ildt idiiim, such as occurs in a spirifer. 
pseudodipteral (su-do-dip'te-ral), a. [< L. 
paeudodiptcros,<. Gr. ^>cv6o6iirrepo^,<. V'fw'w, false, 
4- diirTfpof, two-winged: see dipteral."] In clas- 
sical arch., noting a disposition in the plan of a 
columnar structure resembling that of a dipteral 
building in the wide space left between the peri- 
style and the cella, but with the inner row of 
columns omitted, or, a disposition of plan like 
that of the Parthenon, in which there is an in- 
ner portico of six columns within the peristyle 
before both pronaos and opisthodomos, but no 
such secondary range on the flanks. 
pseudodipterally (su-do-dip'te-ral-i), nrfr. In 
a pseudodipteral manner or style. Encyc. Brit., 
II. 471. 
pseudodistance (su-do-dis'tans), . The dis- 
tance in non-Euclidean geometry. 
pseudodont (su'do-dont), a. [< Gr. ipnoijf, false, 
+ orforf (o<Wr-) '= E. tooth."] Having false 
teeth, as a monotreme. 
pseudodoz (su'do-doks), a. and n. [< Gr. V" 1 - 
Moosnf, holding a false opinion, < V*i*%, false, 
+ oofa, a notion, an opinion. < ifokfiv, think. Cf. 
orthodox.'] I. a. False; not true in opinion. 
[Rare.] 
II. w. A false but common opinion. 
Mad. He 's a rare fellow, without question ! but 
He holds some paradoxes. 
Aim. Ay, and jmeudttdoxe*. 
B. Jontoii, Staple of News, ill. 1. 
The Romists stick not, as once the Valentlnian here- 
tics veritatis fgnorantiam cognitionem vocare, by a para- 
dox, pseudodnx, to call the Ignorance of the truth the true 
knowledge thereof. Ken. T. Adam*, Works, I. 412. 
The counterpart of false and absurd paradox Is what ia 
called the vulgar error, the p&udodox. 
De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, p. 23. 
pseudodozal (su'do-dok-sal), a. [< psendodof 
+ -/.] Of the nature of a pseudodox or false 
opinion ; falsely believed ; untrue or mistaken 
in opinion. [Rare.] 
Orosia is much degenerated from what she was by the 
Gherionian sectaries, who have infected the inhabitants 
with so many pstudodoxall and gingling opinions. 
HmceU, Parly of Beasts, p. 122. (Damtt.) 
pseudo-episcopacy (su'do-e-pis'ko-pa-si), . 
Same as pxi-nacpiscopacy. 
pseudofilaria (su'do-fi-la'ri-a), w.; pi. psendii- 
Jiliirise (-e). [NL.,' < Gr. V*%, false, + L. 
filum, thread : see filar.'] A stage in the devel- 
opment of a gregarina, supervening upon the 
finishing of the early embryonic condition of 
a pseudonavicella, and passing into the condi- 
tion of the adult. See pseudonaricella. E. ran 
Beneden. 
pseudofllarian (su'do-fi-la'ri-an), a. and n. [< 
pseudofilaria + -an.*] I. a. Pertaining to a 
pseudofllaria, or having its character. 
II. . A pseudofilaria. 
pseudofoliaceous (su-do-fo-li-a'shius), a. [< 
Gr. iievdijf, false, + \j. fdliaceus, leafy: seefoli- 
aceous.] In bot., provided with lobes or expan- 
sions resembling leaves: said of a thallus or 
stem. 
Putvdo-foliaceoui forms, in which the thallus is lobed, 
the lobes assuming leaf-like forms. 
Underwood, Bull, of 111. State Laboratory, II. 6. 
pseudogalena (su'do-ga-le'nS), n. False ga- 
lena. See Mack-jack, 3, and blende. 
pseudogastrula (su-do-gas'trij-la), n. A false 
gastrula; that embryonic stage or state in 
which an organism resembles a gastrula with- 
out having undergone a proper gastrulation. 
.lour. Micros. Sci., XXyin. 348. 
pseudogeneral (su-do-jen'e-ral), a. Noting a 
kind of paralysis. See pseudogeneral paralyxis, 
under ]>urli/sis. The p.tcudo- here really quali- 
fies not general, but general paralysis. 
pseudogyrate 
pseudogeneric (su'do-je-ner'ik), a. Spurious 
or merely nominal as a genus ; of the charac- 
ter of a pseudogenus : as, a pseudogeneric form ; 
pgeudogeneric names. 
pseudogenus (su-do-ie'nus), n. ; pi. ]>seiutogen- 
era (-jen'e-rft). [NL., < Gr. V*ww, false, + L- 
genus, birth: see yenux.] 1. In hot., a form- 
genus; a genus based upon apparent species 
which are really only stages in the life-cycle 
of species of other genera. Many of the so- 
called genera of fungi, bacteria, etc., are pxeudo- 
or form-genera. See forni-genux, and compare 
form-species. 2. In zool., a spurious genus. 
Pseudogenera, or pseudogeneric names, may be due to (a) 
the Imagination, as when hypothetical or supposititioui 
ancestral forms, of which nothing is actually known, are 
named as genera (see several cases among words begin- 
ning In Pro-, Proto-)', (ft) defect or error of observation, 
particularly of microscopic objects liable to look different 
when differently manipulated ; (c) defective or mutilated 
specimens accurately described but mistaken for normal 
examples of their kind ; (d) natural monstrosities not 
recognized as such; (t) normal stages of growth or de- 
velopment of any organism mistaken for a different organ- 
ism. Many pseiidogenera of class (e) have been named 
among animals which undergo marked or peculiar trans- 
formations from the embryo to the adult, not under- 
stood by the observer at the time, as many ccelenterates, 
echinoderms. crustaceans, etc. , and even some vertebrates, 
as nslies and batrachlans. Pseudogenera in the above 
senses are all foreign to the question of what degree of dif- 
ference shall be accounted generic, and also of any ques- 
tion of priority or other nomenclature! rule. Those of 
class (of have such standing as one may choose to allow 
them. Those of class (6) can have no stand ing In classes 
(!) and (./) pseudoxeneric names may hold if they can be 
lilentlfled and properly recharacterized (and are not ob- 
noxious to any rule of nomenclature). The large class (e) of 
cases based upon literally " larval " or masked forms of or- 
ganisms whose adults are already named generic-ally has 
no claim to recognition among New Latin genera properly 
so called. But many such pseudogeneric words are con- 
veniently retained in a modified sense as English names 
of the objects which they designate. See, for examples, 
Bipiniiana, Brachinlaria, CifxticiTcu*, Lspttjcephaltt*, Mf- 
galops, Kaupliwt, PhyU<wnna, Ztva. 
pseudogeusia (su-do-gu'si-a), H. [XL., < Gr. 
^wi'i'iyf, false, 4- jttitir, sense of taste, < yevtoOcu, 
taste: see //.<? 2 .] False taste-perception, 
pseudogeustia (su-tlo-gus'ti-ji), . [NL., < Gr. 
T/>rw!;/f, false, + juwruf, verbal adj. of jfiVctfa/, 
taste.] Same as pseudogeusia. 
pseudograph (su'do-graf), . A false writing. 
See psendography. 
pseudographeme (su-dog'ra-fem), . [< Gr. 
tyevtoyp&Qrifia, that which is untruly drawn. < V>r- 
(%, false, + -jpafyeiv, write.] A fallacy imitat- 
ing an apodictie syllogism. 
pseudographize (su-dog'ra-fiz), r. i. ; pret. and 
pp. pseudographizfd, fpi.i>seudogfaphtging. [< 
pseudograpk-y + -izeT] To write wrongly ; pre- 
sent a word, etc., in an incorrect form by writ- 
ing, printing, or any other method of graphic 
representation. [Rare.] 
If we account this error typographical, there must have 
been a widespread conspiracy among old printers to pm- 
diyraphur. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 15tf. 
pseudography (su-dog'ra-fi), >i. [< Gr. i/iewio- 
;/Mi^i'a, a false drawing of a line, < ^itvAoypa^c'iv, 
draw falsely, < V*t*%, false, + ypajxiv. write.] 
An incorrect system or method of graphic rep- 
resentation ; bad spelling. 
"Gh" is only a piece of 111 writing with us, . . . for the 
g sounds Just nothing In "trough," "cough," "might," 
"night," Ac. Only the writer was at leisure to add a 
superfluous Letter, as there are too many in our p*eudoy- 
raphy. B. Jrmson, Eng. Grammar, i. 4. 
I do not intend to pursue the many pnevdographut In 
use, . . . but to shew of how great concern the emphasis 
were, if rightly used. Holder, Elements of Speech, p. 104. 
Pseudogryphus (su-dog'ri-fus), w. ("NL. (Ridg- 
way, 1874), < Gr. V>ct>oV/f, false, + LL. gryphus, 
a griffin : see Grypheea."] A genus of Cathartidie, 
or American vultures, of which the California 
condor, P. californianus, is the only species, 
having no caruncles on the head, and the plu- 
mage of the under parts of peculiar texture. 
See cut under condor. 
pseudogyne (su'do-iin), . [< Gr. V'w'vf, false, 
+ yvvt/, female.] One of the agamic or asex- 
ual females of plant-lice and some other insects 
which reproduce without union with the male. 
With the Aphidida, coition of males and true females 
results in the winter egg, from which hatches a pseudo- 
gyne, which gives birth to a number of generations of 
pseiulogynes. Lichtenstein and others use the term es- 
pecially for a member of the first-winged or migrant gen- 
eration of plant-lice, as distinguished from one of the 
pupiferous or return migrant generation. 
A gall-making aphis, the foundress pteudogyiu. 
A'alure, XXX. 69. 
pseudogynous (u-doj'i-nus), . [< /,./////( 
+ -oiis.j Pertaining to a pseudogyne, or hav- 
ing its character. 
pseudogyrate (su-do-ji'rat), a. [< Gr. V'fw'w, 
false, + L. yyratux, pp., turned round: see gy- 
