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24/02/2025

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PARALLELIZE

To render parallel. [R.]

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MILIOLA

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell withseveral longitudinal chambers.

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ERYTHROXYLON

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing intropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

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INFRIGIDATE

To chill; to make cold; to cool. [Obs.] Boyle.

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UNBORROWED

Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.

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PLAGIOCEPHALIC

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

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ENGORGED

Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.

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PUPIL

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of theeye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), thepupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, oropium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

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PSEUDOVARY

The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called alsopseudovarium.

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CIRCINATE

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- aterm used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

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EXSCUTELLATE

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certaininsects.

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LAPPING

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calicoprinters. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), Amachine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.