pseudovarIum, pseudo vary

[Pref. pseudo-, and Mod. Lat. ovarium or Eng. ovary.] Biol.: (See extract.) "The young [of viviparous Aphides] are developed within organs which resemble the ovarioles of the true females in their disposition, and may be termed pseudo varies. The anterior chamber of each pseudo is lined by an epithelium, which incloses a var i an tube nucleated cells. Pone of the hindermost of these cells enlarges, and becomes detached from the rest as a pseudovum. It then divides and gives rise to a cellular ma which gradually becomes fashioned into the body of a larval Aphis. A portion of the cells of which it is composed become converted into a pseudovarium , and the development of new pseudova commences before the young leaves the body of its parent. It is obvious that this operation is comparable to a kind of budding. If the pseudovum remained adherent to the parental body the analogy would be complete."- Huxley : Anat . Invert pp. 447, 448. pseūd-ō-var-y, s . [PSEUDOVARIUM.] pseū-do-vō-mer, s. [Pref. pseudo- , and Mod. Palcont .: A genus of Carangide, from the Miocene marls of Licata (Sicily). Lat. vomer (q. v.).] pseud-ō'-vŭm ( pl . pseud-ō'-va), subst . [Pref. pseud-, and Lat. ovum =an egg.] [PSEUDOVARIUM.] pshaw, psha, interj . [From the sound.] An exclamation of contempt, disdain, or dislike. "Humor is always crying psha and sneering." -Thacke ray: Humorists, p. 69. pshaw, v. i. [PSHAW, interj.] To utter the interjection pshaw; to utter sounds indicative of contempt or dislike. psi-a-di-a, subst . [Gr. psi as ; psiados a drop. Named from the glutinous drops on the leaves.] Botany: The typical genus of Psiadiese (q. v.). Shrubby plants from Madagascar and the Mauritius.