phascolomys

[Pref. phascolo, and Gr. mysa mouse.] IMG:content-0975.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Palæont.: An extinct species, as large as a Tapir, has been found in the Australian Pliocene deposits. ( Wallace .) phas-col-o-there, subst. [PHASCOLOTHERIUM. Any individual of the genus Phascolotherium (q. v.). phăs-col-ở-thër-I-um, s . [Pref. phascolo- , and Gr. therion a wild beast.] Palæont .: A genus of insectivorous Marsupials, from the Stones field Slate (of Lower Oõlitic age), and having its nearest living ally in Didelphys (q. v.). phăs-cům, s . [Gr. phaskon =a kind of lichen on trees.] Bot.: The typical genus of Phascacese. Minute mo es, some of them scarcely visible to the naked eye, growing on most banks, clay fields, . phāşe, phā-sis, s . [ Lat.phasis (pl. phases ), from Gr. phasis an appearance, from the same root as phaino =to show; phaos =light; Fr. phase ; Ital. & Sp. fase .] I. Ord. Lang.: An appearance or aspect exhibited by anything; especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object; one of the various aspects in which a question presents itself to the mind; a turn, a stage, a state. "Art in its most obvious phasis ."-Sir W. Scott: Prose Works , xxi, 85. II. Technically : 1. Astron .: One of the gradual changes undergone by the moon in pa ing from an unilluminated state (new moon) through that of a continually broadening crescent to a complete orb (full moon), and back to new moon again. Similar phases are undergone by the nferior planets, Mercury and Venus, though, owing to their small size and the exce ive brightne of the latter planet under the telescope, the phenomenon is not so easily seen. Mars, though a superior planet, has slight phases; when in opposition his disc is circular, at all other times it is gib bous. So also have Saturn's rings. 2. Min .: Transparent green quartz. 3. Physics : Any one point or portion in a recur ring series of changes, especially when contrasted with another point, as, the phases in the waves of vibration, in the tides, in the motion of a pendulum, . 4. Physiol.: The several changes which the human and other organisms undergo in the progre from birth to maturity, and thence again to decline and death. For details see DENTITION, PULSE, . phas-el, s . [Lat. phaselus .] [PHASEOLUS.) The French bean or kidney-bean. *phāşe'-le , a. [Eng. phase ; -le .] Without a phase or visible form. "A phasele and increasing gloom." Poe : Works (1864), ii. 34. phăs-ě-ō-le-se, s . pl . [Lat. phaseol (us); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] Bot.: A tribe of papilionaceous plants.