DICE COAL

A species of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. DICE RATES, Dicer at a. {Gr.3is, double, and xiicti, horn; ttoo-horned.) A name applied by De Blainville to a family of the order Paracephalophora Poly branch i at a, comprehending all such Gastropodous Mollusks as have two tentacles on the head. The term Biceras was previously applied by Lamarck to a fo il genus of Bivalves. DICnOTOMOUS, X)jcAoto?«M*. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) Signifies the division of an object by repeated bifurcation, so that the branches are always in pairs. [s. 351]