uni carinate (unikarinat)

[L. unus, one, + carina, keel, + -atel.] Same as uni carinated. uni carinated (ū-ni-kar'i-nā-ted), a. [ Unicellular. uni celled (u'ni-seld), a. [As unicell ( ate ) +-ed2.] unicellular (ū-ni-sel'u-lär), a. [L. unus, one, + cellula, a cell, + -ar2.] Consisting of a single cell, as some infusorians and some cryptogams; pertaining to or exhibiting only a single cell, as most of the protozoan animals and protophytic plants, and the undeveloped ova of all metazoan animals. Most unicellular structures or or corne, In that Contre ben man ye white Olifantes with outen nombre, and of Unycornes, and of Lyouns of many maneres, and many of suche Bestes, that I have told before, and of many other hydouse Bestes with outen nombre. Mandeville, Travels, p. 298. The roots of Mandioca had almost killed them all, but by a peece of Vnicornes horne they were preserued. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 841. 2. A mistranslation in the authorized version of the Bible (Deut. xxxiii. 17, and elsewhere) of the Hebrew word rẻēm. This named a two-horned animal, which has been supposed to be the urus. In the revised version the word is translated wild -ox. 3. In her., the representation of the fabulous animal used as a bearing. It is delineated as a horse, but with the tail of a lion and a long straight horn growing out of the forehead between the ears; often the hoofs are represented as cloven. The actual animal most like this bearing is the gnu. 4. The unicorn-fish, unicorn-whale, sea-unicorn, or narwhal, whose enormously long single incisor tooth projects like a horn. See Monodon, monoceros, 3.-5. The kamichi or horned screamer, Palamedea cornuta; the unicorn-bird. N. Grew. See cut under Palamedea.-6. A kind of beetle having a single long horn; a unicorn beetle. Various large beetles literally answer to this definition, being unicorn ous, with a large single prothes racic horn. See Dynastes, elephant - beetle, Hercules - beetle. 7. In conch., a unicorn-shell. See cut under Monoceros.-8. A pair of horses with a third horse in front; also, the whole equipage. Let me drive you out some day in my unicorn. Mi Edge worth, Be linda, xvii. 9. A Scottish gold coin i ued by James III., the addition of adventitious protoplasmic material, as the eggs of birds or reptiles. See cut under Pro to coccus. Also mono cellular - Unicellular animals, the Protozoa. unicentral (ū-ni-sen'tral), a. [L. unus, one, + centrum, center, + -al.] Having a single center (of growth), as an animal; proceeding from a center in all directions, as growth or development. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., I. 134. unichord (u'ni-kôrd), n. Same as monochord. uni ciliate (ū-ni-sil'i-āt), a. [L. unus, one, + NL. cilium + -ate2.] 1. Having one cilium; uni flagellate. Micros. Sci., XXIX. 348.—2. In bot., having one cilium or hair-like proce : as, a uni ciliate bacterium. uni ciliated (ū-ni-sil'i-a-ted), a. Same as uni ciliate.