gelid, geled

[Lat. gelid us, from gelu = frost.] Extremely cold or cool. "By gelid founts and carele rills to muse." Thomson: Summer , 208, gel-id-1-ā-çě-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. gelid i (um), and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ .] Bot.: A family, tribe, or order of rose-spored Alge, and belonging to the group Desmiospermeæ, i. e., those bearing necklaces of spores. Some of the foreign species are very beautiful. Type, Gelidium (q. v.).