tupaiidæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. tupai (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] 1. Zoology : A family of Insect i vor a, with two genera, Tupaia and Ptilocercus, to which some authorities add a third, Hylomys. Squirrel-like shrews, with bushy tails, partially arboreal, but also feeding on the ground and among low bushes. Patagium absent: limbs short and robust. They are especially Malayan, with outlying species in northern and continental India. 2. Palæont .: Oxygomphus, from the Tertiary deposits of Germany, is believed to belong to this United States. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; turbaned tū-pĕ-lō, s. (Native Indian name.] Comm.: The wood of the trees of the genus Ny a (q. v.), and the trees themselves. The wood is difficult to split, its fibers being much interwoven. It is of little value. tū quô quě, phr . [Lat.=thou also.] An answer or argument in which the person a ailed retorts with the same or similar charge upon the a ailant. Used also adjectively, as a tu quoque argument. tûr, s. [TOOR.] tu-ra-çine, subst. [Mod. Latin turac (o); -ine ( Chem.)] Chem .: A red pigment found in the wing feathers of the Touracos. [CORYTHAIX, TOURACO.] It is extracted by means of dilute alkalies, from which it may be precipitated by acids. It differs from all other natural pigments in containing copper to the amount of 5.9 per cent, which cannot be separated without destroying the pigment. The spectrum of turacine has two black absorption bands. tu-ra-nî'-ra, subst. [Guianan name.) (See compound.) turanira-wood, s. Bot. & Comm.: The wood of the bastard bully tree of Guiana, Bumelia retusa . Tu-rā-ni-an, a . [From Turan .] [ARYAN.] Philol.: A term applied to one of the great cla es into which human speech has been divided. It is also called Altaic, Scythian, Agglutinate, and Polysynthetic. "The term Turanian must be confined to those Ugro Altaic languages which, as it seems to me, have been proved by Schott and others to be related to one another (extending from Finland on the one side to Manchuria on the other)."- Sayce : Comparative Philology , p. 21. tu-rătt, s. [Native name.] Zool.: The Hare Kangaroo (q. v.). tür-ban, *tol-i-bant, *tu-li-bant, *tu-11