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All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.
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Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
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Altrices. Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces.
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Ambergris. A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212° Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
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American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.
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An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
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An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
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An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.
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