Lecythis: alternatives and connections

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the ki…

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

To strip the bark from; to peel.

A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae…

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family)…

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by…

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the openi…

The act of gaping.

A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.

One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Aepiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar.

Long ago.

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

Of extraordinary size; like a giant.