ASTRABES

(Lat.), adj. A®s(a3s)’tra3-bez(bas). Gr., dorpaBñs (= dorpapys). 1. Not twisted or distorted (said of the jaws or the HET } ippocrates (A, 311, 325).] 2. Stretched tight. [Aretæus ASTRÆA (Lat.), n. f, A%s(a3s)-tre’(tra*’e2)-a3, From aorpaños, starry, starred. Of Klotzsch, a genus of euphorbiaceous plants, by Bentham and Hooker referred to Croton. [B, 42, 170.] From a priv., ASTRÆANS, n. pl. A?s-tre’aînz. See ASTRÆDÆ. ASTRÆIDÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. ’(tra’’e?)-i2d-e(as-e?). The astræans; a family of the division Aporosa of the order Zoantharia sclerodermata of the Actinozoa; characterized by having the corallum simple or compound, no proper coenenchyma, numerous di epiments, no synapticulg. no tabulæ, and the corallites well defined and separated from each other by perfect walls. [A, 359.] ASTRÆIFORM, adj. ‘i?-fotrm. Shaped like the Astrea, a genus of the Astræidæ. [L, 121.] ASTRÆOPSIS (Lat.), n. f. ’si?s. Gen., astræop's eos (-sis). From Astrea and öyıs, an appearance. A section of the genus Croton. [H. Baillon (B, 121).]