Cent role pis (sent role pis)

[NL., 2. In ichth., a genus of fishes. Egerton, 1843. centrolinead (sen-tro-lin'ē-ad), n. [L. cen trum, center, + line a, line, + -ad3.] An instrument for drawing lines converging toward a point, though the point be inacce ible. centrolineal (sen-tro-lin'ē-al), a. and n. [L. centrum, center, + line a, line, + -al.] I. a. Converging to a center. II. n. Same as centrolinead . Centrolophinæ (sentrō-lō-fi'nē), n. pl. [NL., centrolophine (sen-trol'ō-fin), a. and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to the Centrolophina. Thomson and Tait , Nat. Phil., § 534. Centrobaric method, a method of measuring the extent of a surface or the contents of a solid by means of certain relations subsisting between the center of inertia (or gravity) of a line and surfaces generated by it, and between the center of inertia of a plane surface and solids gener ated by it. centrobaric alt, a. [Formerly also cent rob ary cal (E. Phillips, 1706); as centrobaric + -al .] An obsolete form of centrobaric. Centrocercus (sen-tro-ser'kus), n. [NL. (Swains on, 1831), Sage-cock, or Cock- of -the-plains ( Centrocercus urophasianus). Tetraonidæ or grouse family, the typical and only species of which is the great sage-cock or cock-of-the-plains of western America, C. uro phasianus. The genus is so named from the stiff, narrowly acuminate tail-feathers, which are 20 in number and equal or exceed the length of the wing. The neck is susceptible of enormous inflation by means of air-sacs beneath the skin, which when distended is extensively naked, and forms an irregular bulging ma surmounted by a fringe of filamentous feathers, several inches long, springing from a ma of erect white feathers, and covered below with a solid set of sharp, white, horny feathers like fish-scales. The tarsus is feathered to the toes, and the gizzard is only slightly muscular. cent rod or sal (sen-trō-dôr's al), a . and n. [L. centrum, center, + dorsum , back, + -al .] I. a . Central and dorsal or aboral: applied to the central o icle of the stem of crinoids, as members of the genus Comatula. The centre of the skeleton is constituted by a large cen tro- dorsal o icle. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 500. II. n. In crinoids, a cent rod or sal o icle which unites the skeleton of the stalk with the body. cent rod or sally (sen-tro-dor's al-i), adv . In a cent rod or sal position or relation. Centrogonida (sen-tro-gon'i-da), n. pl. [NL., -ida. An order of degraded suctorial crustaceans, represented by such genera as Sacculina and Pel to gaster. Also called Suctoria and Rhi zocephala. centroid (sen'troid), n. [ See center1 . centrolecithal (sen-tro-les'i-thal), a . [ λέκιθος , yolk of an egg, + -al .]