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Radiatiform :: Radiatiform (a.) Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower..

Trichomanes :: Trichomanes (n.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States..

Scholium :: Scholium (n.) A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian..

Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Cycloidei :: Cycloidei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial..

Postil :: Postil (n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus..

Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

Inframarginal :: Inframarginal (a.) Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain..

Postiler :: Postiler (n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.

Toothed :: Toothed (a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

Marginal :: Marginal (a.) Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss..

Troilus :: Troilus (n.) A large, handsome American butterfly (Euph/ades, / Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings..

Rhopalium :: Rhopalium (n.) One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.

Intra- :: Intra- () A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..

Intramarginal :: Intramarginal (a.) Situated within the margin.

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope..

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