parka2 (parka)

A curious fo il from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland and England. It is an egg-packet, probably of some species of the crustacean genus Pterygotus, which is found in the same beds. parken, n. See parkin . parkert (pär'ker), n. [ parkere ; park + -er1. The word is now best known as a sur- name, Parker .] The keeper of a park. Sex pons ther-fore to feys he takes, And pays feys to parkers als I-wys. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 319. The office of parker of the forests of Croxteth and Toxteth. Record Soc . Lancashire and Cheshire, XII. 7. Parkes proce . See proce . Parkia (pär'ki-ä), n. [NL. (R. Brown, 1826), after Mungo Park (1771-c. 1806), an African traveler.] A genus of ornamental leguminous trees of the suborder Mimoseæ, type of the tribe Parkieæ, distinguished from related genera by having ten perfect stamens. There are about 25 species, natives of tropical America, Asia, and Africa. They bear bipinnate leaves of many small leaflets, said to reach 6,000 in one leaf, and large roundish or club-shaped heads of small flowers, solitary and pendulous from the axils or in copious terminal panicles. The flowers often exceed 2,000 in a head, the lower ones being sterile and white or red, the upper perfect and yellowish, brownish, or red, followed by long pods with edible seeds or pulp. P. biglandulosa is the nittaor nutta-tree of western Africa, or African locust-tree, the doura of Sudan. See nitta -tree.