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Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole..

Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge..

Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike..

Conterminal :: Conterminal (a.) Conterminous.

Toe :: Toe (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal..

Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

Stentor :: Stentor (n.) Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha..

Mucor :: Mucor (n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

Lion :: Lion (n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black.

Imparipinnate :: Imparipinnate (a.) Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

Retinophora :: Retinophora (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium..

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Term :: Term (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3..

Lizard''s Tail :: Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name..

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower..

Tail :: Tail (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin..

Tail :: Tail (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal..

Hoggerpipe :: Hoggerpipe (n.) The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.

Broadleaf :: Broadleaf (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit..

Desinential :: Desinential (a.) Terminal.

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