erIophorum

[Cr. erion =wool, and pho ros -bearing.] Botany : Cotton-gra . A genus of Cyperacese (Sedges), tribe Scirpeæ. It consists of perennial tufted herbs, with many-flowered spikelets; the glumes imbricated on every side, and several hypogynous bristles, becoming very long and silky. The silk or cotton from an English species of the IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] Botany : 1. The rachis or axis of gra es. 2. A genus of South American Vochyacese, Erisma japura , is the Japura of Brazil, a fine tree, 80 to 120 feet high. *ě-ris-tic, *ě-ris-tick, *e-ris-tic-al, a. & s. [Gr. eristikos pertaining to strife; eris =strife.] A. As adj . ( of both forms): Controversial; pertaining to or of the nature of disputation or controversy. B. As subst. (of the form Eristic): A controversialist. "An Euchite as well as an Eristick ."-Gauden: Tears of the Church, p. 93. *er'-I-tage (tage as tig), s. [HERITAGE, 8.] *ěr'-I-tage (tage as tig), v. t. [HERITAGE, v.] 1. To inherit. 2. To endow. *e-rite, s. [Lat. hæreticus.] A heretic. ěr-iz, s. [ERYX.] *erke, s . [A. S. earg , earh .) Lazy, idle, indolent, slothful.