Aristotle's lantern: alternatives and connections

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Acce…

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contribu…

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust.…

The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, compos…

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and p…

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payabl…

Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the…

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, anne…

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the…