Aeolian :: Aeolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect..

Aeolian :: Aeolian (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial..

Aeolic :: Aeolic (a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode..

Aeolipile :: Aeolipile (n.) Alt. of Aeolipyl.

Aeolipyle :: Aeolipyle (n.) An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve..

Alveoli :: Alveoli (pl. ) of Alveolu.

Alveoliform :: Alveoliform (a.) Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities..

Archaeolithic :: Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Capreoline :: Capreoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

Creolian :: Creolian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles..

Creolian :: Creolian (n. ) A Creole.

Elaeolite :: Elaeolite (n.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color..

Eolian :: Eolian (a.) Aeolian.

Eolian :: Eolian (a.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes..

Eolic :: Eolic (a. & n.) See Aeolic.

Eolipile :: Eolipile (n.) Same as Aeolipile.

Eolis :: Eolis (n.) A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.

Luteolin :: Luteolin (n.) A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

Malleoli :: Malleoli (pl. ) of Malleolu.

Neolithic :: Neolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone..

Nucleoli :: Nucleoli (pl. ) of Nucleolu.

Osteolite :: Osteolite (n.) A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate..

Paleolith :: Paleolith (n.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Paleolithic :: Paleolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the Stone Age; the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings..

Praseolite :: Praseolite (n.) A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.

Tropaeolin :: Tropaeolin (n.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropaeolum).

Urceoli :: Urceoli (pl. ) of Urceolu.

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

Zeolitic :: Zeolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite..

Zeolitiform :: Zeolitiform (a.) Having the form of a zeolite.

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