prot ameba

[Pref. prot-, and Mod. Lat amæba.] Zool.: A genus of Haeckel's order Lobo monera. They are minute ma es of protoplasm, increasing by symmetrical fi ion. prō-tăn-droŭs, proter-ăn-drous, a . [Pref. prot- , proter (o)-; Gr. aner (gen it, andros )=a man, here=a stamen, and Eng. suff. -ous.] Bot. Of or belonging to plants in which the stamens are ready to discharge their pollen before the stigma is ready to receive it, thus inviting cro fertilization. Examples: is purpure a , Po tentilla an serin a , . prō-tăn-dry, s. [PROTANDROUS.] Bot.: The state of being protandrous. prō tăn-tô, phr. [Lat.] For so much. *prot-arch, s. [Pref. prot- , and Gr. archō -to rule.] A chief ruler. protasis prot-a-sis, s. [Gr., from protei no =to stretch before, to present.] *I. Ord. Lang.: A proposition, a maxim. II. Technically: *1. Anc . Drama : The first part of a comedy or tragedy, in which the several characters are displayed and the argument of the piece explained. "Do you look for conclusions in a protasis ? I thought the law of comedy had reserved them to the catastrophe." -Ben Jonson: Magnetic Lady, i. 1. 2. Gram. & Rhet .: The first clause of a conditional sentence, being the condition on which the main term ( apodosis ) depends, or notwithstanding which it takes place; as, Although he was incompetent ( protasis ), he was elected ( apodosis ). prot-as-ta-çine, adj . [Pref. prot- ; Mod. Lat. astac(us), and Eng. suff. -ine.] Belonging to, resembling, or connected with the hypothetical ancestor of the Crayfishes. ( Huxley : Crayfish, p. 344.)