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- English Word Nemathecium Definition A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.
- English Word Nemato- Definition A combining form from Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread.
- English Word Nematoblast Definition A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
- English Word Nematocalyces Definition of Nematocalyx
- English Word Nematocalyx Definition One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.
- English Word Nematocera Definition A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera.
- English Word Nematocyst Definition A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.
- English Word Nematode Definition Same as Nematoid.
- English Word Nematogene Definition One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene.
- English Word Nematognath Definition one of the Nematognathi.
- English Word Nematognathi Definition An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.
- English Word Nematoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Nematoidea.
- English Word Nematoid Definition One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Nematoidea Definition An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.
- English Word Nematoidean Definition Nematoid.
- English Word Nematophora Definition Same as Coelenterata.
- English Word Nemean Definition Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
- English Word Nemertes Definition A genus of nemertina.
- English Word Nemertian Definition Nemertean.
- English Word Nemertid Definition Nemertean.