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Wernerian :: Wernerian (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system..

Holostraca :: Holostraca (n. pl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell..

Eschara :: Eschara (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched..

Ischiocerite :: Ischiocerite (n.) The third joint or the antennae of the Crustacea.

Crushing :: Crushing (a.) That crushes; overwhelming.

Thalassinian :: Thalassinian (n.) Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen..

Gannister :: Gannister (n.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn..

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..

Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A

Vesbium :: Vesbium (n.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.

Argulus :: Argulus (n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura..

Slater :: Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

Crush :: Crush (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception..

Xylophagous :: Xylophagous (a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks..

Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..

Metanauplius :: Metanauplius (n.) A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages..

Entomostraca :: Entomostraca (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera..

Gnathopodite :: Gnathopodite (n.) Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds..

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