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Aquatic :: Aquatic (a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls..

Encrinoidea :: Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea..

Rafflesia :: Rafflesia (n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet..

Quick :: Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

Life-weary :: Life-weary (a.) Weary of living.

Needy :: Needy (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc..

Electro-vitalism :: Electro-vitalism (n.) The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.

Cadger :: Cadger (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging.

Wild :: Wild (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat..

Formative :: Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter..

Beast :: Beast (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..

Organism :: Organism (n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual..

Acupuncture :: Acupuncture (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

Fossil :: Fossil (n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living..

Throng :: Throng (n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

Lifelike :: Lifelike (a.) Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait..

Transformism :: Transformism (n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis..

Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..

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