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[Named after Dr. Martin Lister, a British naturalist.] Bot .: Bird's Nest or Twayblade, the typical genus of the family Lister ide. The root is of fleshy fibers; the leaves two or none; the flowers are in green or brown racemes, the sepals and petals spreading and incurved, the lip deflexed, two-cleft, the spur none, the pollen ma es two, powdery, the glands connate. Lis-tër-i-an, a. [ Lister ; -ian.] Pertaining to, characteristic of, or in any way connected with the antiseptic surgery introduced by Sir Joseph Lister. [LISTERISM.] "The results of the Lister i an system in surgery are proved to be decidedly succe ful." -Journ, of Science. lis-těr-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. lister (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Bot .: A family of Orchids, tribe Neotteæ.