Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

Pseudo-china :: Pseudo-china (n.) The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America..

Pseudo-cone :: Pseudo-cone (n.) One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others..

Pseudo-cumene :: Pseudo-cumene (n.) A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid..

Pseudo-dipteral :: Pseudo-dipteral (a.) Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column..

Pseudo-dipteral :: Pseudo-dipteral (n.) A pseudo-dipteral temple.

Pseudo-galena :: Pseudo-galena (n.) False galena, or blende. See Blende (a)..

Pseudo-heart :: Pseudo-heart (n.) Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system..

Pseudo-hyperthophic :: Pseudo-hyperthophic (a.) Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat..

Pseudo-metallic :: Pseudo-metallic (a.) Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals..

Pseudo-monocotyledonous :: Pseudo-monocotyledonous (a.) Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut..

Pseudo-romantic :: Pseudo-romantic (a.) Falsely romantic.

Pseudo-symmetric :: Pseudo-symmetric (a.) Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.

Pseudo-symmetry :: Pseudo-symmetry (n.) A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite..

Pseudobacteria :: Pseudobacteria (n. pl.) Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria..

Pseudoblepsis :: Pseudoblepsis (n.) False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects.

Pseudobranch :: Pseudobranch (n.) Same as Pseudobranchia.

Pseudobranchia :: Pseudobranchia (n.) A rudimentary branchia, or gill..

Pseudobranchiae :: Pseudobranchiae (pl. ) of Pseudobranchi.

Pseudocarp :: Pseudocarp (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig..

Pseudocoele :: Pseudocoele (n.) Same as Pseudocoelia.

Pseudocoelia :: Pseudocoelia (n.) The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle.

Pseudodox :: Pseudodox (a.) Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.

Pseudodox :: Pseudodox (n.) A false opinion or doctrine.

Pseudofilari/ :: Pseudofilari/ (pl. ) of Pseudofilari.

Pseudofilaria :: Pseudofilaria (n.) One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae.

Pseudograph :: Pseudograph (n.) A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Pseudography :: Pseudography (n.) False writing; forgery.

Pseudohalter :: Pseudohalter (n.) One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera..

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