symbranchiate (simbrangkiat)

and n. [ II. n. A symbranch. Symbranchidæ (sim-brang'ki-dē), n. pl. [NL., Symbranchus + -idæ.] A family of fishes, represented by the genus Symbranchus, to which different limits have been a igned. (a) In Günther's system, a family including the Symbranchidæ proper, Amphipnoidæ, Monopteridæ, and Chilobranchidæ. (b) In Gill's system, restricted to the genus Symbranchus, represented by 3 species, one of which inhabits the rivers of tropical America, and the others those of southern and eastern Asia. Also Synbranchidæ. See Symbranchus. Symbranchii (sim-brang'ki-i), n. pl. Same as Symbranchia. symmetry continued perpendicular to that plane and at the same distance from it: said also of each part relatively to the corresponding part: as, the right arm is symmetrical with the left.-3. In a weakened sense, in zoöl., having similar parts in reversed repetition on the two sides of a median plane, or meson, through an axis of the body, generally the longitudinal. Not all the parts need so correspond, nor need those which do correspond be equal.-4. Com Composed of parts or determined by elements similarly related to one another, and either having no determinate order (as the three lines which by their junction form a summit of a cube) or else in regular cyclical order: said also of the parts in their mutual relation.-5. Specifically, in bot., of flowers, numerically regular; having the num series of organs that is, of sepals, petals, sta same all the cycles or mens, and carpels: same as isomerous, except that in a symmetrical flower there may be more than one set of the same kind of organs. Compare regular, a., 7.- Symmetrical equation, an equation whose nil factum is a symmetrical function of the variables. - Symmetrical function of several variables. See symmetric function, under function - Symmetrical gangrene. Same as Raynaud's disease (which hemianopsia. see, under disease ). - Symmetrical hemianopsia. See symmetrically (si-met'ri-kal-i), adv. In a symmetrical manner; with symmetry. symmetricalne (si-met'ri-kal-nes), n. The state or quality of being symmetrical. symmetric i an (sim-e-trish'an), n. [ The longest rib is common lie about the fourth part of a man, as some rouing symmetric i ans affirme. Harrison, Descrip. of Britain, i. (Holinshed's Chron., L.). symmetrist (sim'e-trist), n. [ Some exact symmetrists have been blamed for being too true. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 56.