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MACAUCO. A genus of four-handed animals, resembling the monkey tribe.
MACRODACTYLS. Long-toed wading birds.
MAGOT. A small species of ape, sometimes called the Barbary ape.
MALACOLOGIST. One who treats of mollusks.
MANNIFERS. A name synonymous with mammals; meaning animals which suckle their young.
MANATEE. A marine animal closely related to the dugong. It Is sometimes called lamantine or sea-cow.
MARGARINE. A fatty solid matter obtained from oil.
MOUFFLON. Caprovis Mussimon. Resembling the mountain sheep of Arizona. It is the size of a deer; covered with hair which assumes a woolly character in winter.
OLEINE. The fluid portion of fats and oils.
ONAGER. Another name for the wild ass.
OROGRAPHY. As opposed to hydrography; the description of the mountain system of a country.
PALMIPEDS. Web-footed fowl.
PECCARY. An animal resembling a hog, sometimes called Mexican hog, or tajacu.
PELLICAN. A largo aquatic bird, having a long, straight and very strong bill. It lives upon fish, which It carries for some time in a pouch or bag attached to the lover mandible.
PIROGUE. A canoe, usually formed of a hollowed tree.
POLYPORUS. A genus of fungi, allied to mushrooms, toad-stools, sap-balls, etc.; used in Germany to make the tinder called Amadon.
PTEROPODA. A class of mollusks which live In the open sea, and have a pair of flippers or wings, by which they pass rapidly through the water.
PULP. The common name for marine animals of the genus octopus, such as the cuttle-fish. They have eight feet or arms around the head, with which they swim, creep, and seize their prey. It is the Pieuvre of Victor Hugo.
PUZZOLAN. Fine volcanic ashes, which harden under water, forming a kind of cement.
PYROXYLINE. Called also gun-cotton. It burns In the open air with a flash, though without smoke or report; but It is violently explosive when fired in a confined space.
QUADRUMANA. Animals having four hands, as apes, baboons, etc.
QUININE. The most important of the vegetable alkaloids found In the cinchona (see CINCHONIA). It is one of the most valuable antiperiodics and febrifuges known.
RECRUDESENCE. The state of becoming sore again.
RINFORDZANDO. A musical sign denoting an Increase of sound. Usually expressed by the abbreviation rf.
RUMINANT. An animal that chews the cud.
SAGOIN. A species of sapajo. The squirrel monkey; so called on account of its hairy tail.
SALICIN. A white and very bitter substance, obtained from the bark of the willow and other trees.
SAPAJOS. The proper name for tailed monkeys, as distinguishing them from apes, baboons and gorillas, which are tailless.
SEXTANT. An Instrument for measuring angles by reflection.
SPHENISCUS. Penguins; a sub-family of auks. Oceanic birds remarkable for their short legs, very short wings—which are useful only In swimming; and their upright position when at rest.
STEARINE. The most abundant of the solid constituents of fats and oils. Also a popular name for stearic acid, used in candles.
SUCCEDANEOUS. Supplying the place of something else.
TALUS. A sloping heap of fragments accumulated at the foot of a steep rock, from the face of which they have been broken off by the action of the weather.
TETRA. Tetraonieda, or grouse. The bird here described resembles the pinated grouse, or prairie-chicken.
TINAMONS. A family of birds belonging to the order gallinæ. They are about the size of quail.
TOURACO-LORIES. Climbing birds of the parrot family.
TRAGOPANS. A large species of pheasant.
TUFA. A name given to volcanic dust, cemented by the Infiltration of water into a porous rock.
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