dictionary (dikshonari)

and a. [= F.dic tionnaire (> G. dictionar = Sw. diktionär = Dan. diktionær ) = Sp. Pg. diccionario = It. dizionario, [NL., Gr. δίκτυον, & net, + κύστις, bladder.] The typical genus of Dictyocystidæ, containing pelagic free swimming animalcules with a fenestrated silicious lorica and tentaculiform cilia. D. ca is and D. elegans are examples. Ehrenberg. Dictyocystidæ (dik"ti-ō-sis'ti-dē), n. pl. [NL., oscoriaceæ and to some tribes of the Liliacea. dictyogen ous (dik-ti-oj'e-nus), a. [ list of words. Exactly equiv. in etymological dictyogen; having the general character of an meaning are vocabulary, lexicon, and word - book.] endogen, but with netted leaf-veins. IMG:content-2590.png:[ocr errors] I. n.; pl. dictionaries (-riz). A book containing Dictyograptus (dikti-o-grap'tus), n. [NL., either all or the principal words of a language, Gr. δίκτυον, a net, + NL. Graptus.] A genus of or words of one or more specified cla es, arranged in a stated order, usually alphabetical, with definitions or explanations of their meanings and other information concerning them, expre ed either in the same or in another language; a word-book; a lexicon; a vocabulary: as, an English dictionary; a Greek and Latin dictionary; a French-English or an English French dictionary. In the original and most usual widely distributed and important fo ils, originally described by Eichwald under the name of Gorgon i a flabelliform is, and later by Hall under that of Dictyonema, and by him at that time (1852) considered to be corals, having a structure similar to that of Fenestella. Later the name Dictyograptus was substituted for Dictyonema. This fos sil has been considered by some as a plant, but is now referred to the graptolites, from which it differs but slight ly, if at all. Dictyograptus is "one of the most charac Dypical genus oli of Dictyophorida (dikti-o-for'i-da), n. pl. [NL.,