A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute.

Date:
1899
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Credit: A first book in organic evolution / by D. Kerfoot Shute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cadu-ci-bran-chi-a'ta [Lat. caducus, falling; branchia, gills.] Urodeles that lose their gills before maturity. Ca-du-ci-bran’chi-ates [Vid. Caducibranchiata.] Cal'li-thrix [Gr. kalos, beautiful; t/irix, hair.] Cal-a-mo-ich'thys [Gr. ka/amos, reed; ichthys, fish.] Ca'lyx [Gr. kalyx, cover.] The outermost series of leaves (sepals) of a flower; usually green. Cam'bri-an [Cambria, Wales.} The name given by Sedg- wick [to those Palaeozoic rocks that underly the Silurian, in Cambria (or Wales). Car bon-if'er-ous [Lat. carbo, coal\fero, bear.] Car-i-na'tae [Lat. carinatus, keel-shaped ] Birds having a keeled (carinate) breast bone. Car-niv'o-ra [Lat. caro, flesh; voro, devour.] Flesh-eating mammals. Cas tra'tion [Lat. cas/ratus.] Removal of the glands that bear the Germ-Cells. Cat-ar-rhi'nae [Gr. kata, down; rhis, nose.] Old World monkeys. The septum of the nose is narrow; the tail is short and not prehensile. Cat'ar-rhines [Vid. Catarrhinae.] Old World monkeys. Ceb'idae [Gr. kebos, long-tailed monkey.] A family of New World monkeys. Ce'bus [Gr. kebos, long-tailed monkey.] Cen-o-zo'ic [Gr. kainos, new; zoe, life.] Relating to the Quaternary and Tertiary eras. Cen'ti-pede [Lat centum, hundred; pes, foot.] A many jointed myriapod having a pair of legs to each joint. Cen tro some [Gr. kentron, center; soma, body.] A body just outside of the nucleus of a cell and that governs the mitotic phases of a cell. Ceph-a-lop'o-da [Gr. kephale, head; pous, foot.] Molluscs with a subcentral head, a beaked mouth, and tentacles taking the place of feet, including cuttlefishes, etc. Cer'a-tites [Gr. keras, horn; ties, like.] A fossil cephalopod with the habitation chamber short and sutural saddles mostly simple. Cer'a-to-dus [Gr. keras, horn; odous, tooth.] So-called from the horn-like ridges of the teeth. A lung-fish. Cer-co-pi-the'ci-dae [Gr. kerkopithekos, a long-tailed ape; etdos form.] A family of catarrhine anthropoidea.