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Kerite :: Kerite (n.) A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy..

Palmitin :: Palmitin (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate..

Provender :: Provender (n.) Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed..

Life :: Life (n.) The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively..

Creature :: Creature (n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man..

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence..

Moolley :: Moolley (a.) Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow..

Train :: Train (v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare..

Exogen :: Exogen (n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen..

Electro-bioscopy :: Electro-bioscopy (n.) A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction..

Rhodophane :: Rhodophane (n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

Hacienda :: Hacienda (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions..

Pelagic :: Pelagic (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast..

Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..

Chylifaction :: Chylifaction (n.) The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process..

Domestic :: Domestic (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals..

Commodity :: Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal..

Irrespirable :: Irrespirable (a.) Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air..

Dwarfish :: Dwarfish (a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub..

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