vesiculotubular (vesikulotu bular)

Combining vesicular and tubular qualities: applied to a respiratory sound. - Vesiculotubular respiration, a respiratory sound in which the normal vesicular murmur is heard, but with an added tubular or blowing quality. vesiculotympanitic (vē-sik"ū-lō-tim-pa-nit'ik), a. Partaking of both vesicular and tympanitic qualities: applied to a percu ion note. -Vesiculotympanitic resonance. See resonance. vesiculous (ve-sik'ū-lus), a. [= F. vésiculeux, vesiculus (vē-sik'ū-lus), n.; pl. vesiculi (-li). Same as vesicle. Encyc. Brit., XII. 551. [Rare.] Vespa (ves'pä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1758), other, and enveloped in a papery covering. In tropical regions these nests reach an immense size, those of a Ceylonese species often measuring 6 feet in length. Twenty species occur in the United States and 14 in Europe. V. maculata of North America is the so-called white - faced hornet, and is i so typical with the European V. crabro. The latter has been introduced into the United States, and occurs in New York and New England. vesper (ves'pėr), n. [ IMG:content-1809.png:[blocks in formation] [ 2. pl. [ They [the priests] concluded that dayes ceremonies with their Vespers. Coryat , Crudities, I. 40. The far bell of vesper , Seeming to weep the dying day's decay. Byron, Don Juan, iii. 108. Sicilian Vespers. See Sicilian . - Vesper mouse. See vesper- mouse . vesperal (ves'pėr-al), a . and n. [ vesper a lis , of the evening, vesper , vesper a , evening: see vesper .] I. a. Relating to the evening or to vespers. [Rare.] II. n. That part of the antiphonarium which contains the chants for vespers. Lee's Glo ary . vesper-bell (ves'pėr-bel), п. The bell that summons to vespers. Hark the little vesper-bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner, vii. vesper-bird (ves'per-bėrd), n. The common bay-winged bunting of the United States, Poœ cetes gramineus : so called from its song, often heard as the shades of night fall. See Poæcetes , and cut under gra finch . J. Burroughs. Vesper i mus (ves-per'i-mus), n . [NL. (Coues, 1874), vesper , the evening, hence the west, + mus, mouse.] The leading genus of American vesper-mice, having as type the common white-footed deer-mouse of North America, usually called Hesperomys leucopus . The name was originally proposed as a subgenus, but Hesperomys has lately (1891) been shown to be untenable in any sense, tioned must be called V. american us (after Kerr, 1792). and of nomenclature species above See cut under deer - mouse . vesper-mouse (ves'per-mous), n.; pl. vesper mice (-mis). A mouse of the genus Hesperomys or Vesper i mus, or a related form; in the plural, native American mice and murine rodents collectively; the Sigmodontes, as distinguished from the Mures, indigenous to the Old World. See the technical words. S. F. Baird, 1857. vesper-sparrow (ves'per-spar"ō), n. The vesper-bird. Coues. Vespertilio (ves-pėr-til i-ō), n. [NL., and Vespertilionidæ.