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Protoplasta :: Protoplasta (n. pl.) A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

Anisopleura :: Anisopleura (n. pl.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed..

First-class :: First-class (a.) Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope..

Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto..

Shard :: Shard (n.) A boundary; a division.

Split :: Split (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division..

Rhizophaga :: Rhizophaga (n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

Rhizocephala :: Rhizocephala (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

Polytomy :: Polytomy (n.) A division into many members.

Echelon :: Echelon (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

Multifoil :: Multifoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.

Quadrisection :: Quadrisection (n.) A subdivision into four parts.

Napier''s Rods :: Napier's rods () A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division..

Centurion :: Centurion (n.) A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.

Gordiacea :: Gordiacea (n. pl.) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix..

Department :: Department (v. i.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire..

Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods..

Punctuative :: Punctuative (a.) Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation.

Pseudoneuroptera :: Pseudoneuroptera (n. pl.) division of insects (Zool.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoologists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera..

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