Protamœba (prot ameba)

[NL., It is open to doubt, however, whether either Protama ba , Pro to genes, or Myxodictyum is anything but one 4792 Protea (prōtē-a), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), so called in allusion to the numerous forms naturally taken by these shrubs, and especially the many new forms and the lo of satiny Proteus, a sea-god fabled to change himself surfaces when first cultivated; stage of a cycle of forms which are more completely, into any shape he wished: see Proteus.] A though perhaps not yet wholly, represented by some very interesting Monera. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 75. prot amœban (prō-ta-mē'ban), a. and n. I. a. Having the characters of Protamaba. II. n. A member of the genus Protamaba . prot a mph i rhine (prō-tam'fi-rin), n . [ πρῶ τος, first, + NL. amphirhinus : see a mph i rhine .] The hypothetical primitive ancestral form of vertebrates having paired nostrils. See am phirhine , monorhine. From this Prot a mph i rhine were developed, in divergent lines, the true Sharks, Rays, and Chimæræ; the Ganoids, and the Dipneusta. Huxley , Critiques and Addre es, p. 284. protandric (prō-tan'drik), a . [As protanar - y + -ic.] In bot . , same as protandrous . protandrous (prō-tan'drus), a . [As protandr - y +-ous.] In bot ., same as proterandrous . protandry (prō-tan'dri), n. [ πρῶτος , first, + ἀνήρ (άνδρ-), male (in mod. bot. stamen).] In bot ., same as proterandry . The terms protandry and protogyny used by Hildebrand to expre , in the one case the development of the stamens before the pistils, in the other case the development of the pistils before the stamens, are so convenient and expre ive that they have been adopted in this paper. Nature . pro tanto (pro tan'tō). [L.: pro, for, so far as; tanto, abl. sing. neut. of tantus, so much.] For so much; to that extent. protarch (prō'tärk), n. [ In the age of the Apostles and the age next succeeding, the highest order in the church under the Apostles were national protarchs or patriarchs. Abp . Bramhall , Works, II. 149. ( Davies .) pro tarsus (prō-tär's us), n.; pl. protarsi (-sī). [NL., πρό , before, + ταρσός , > NL. tarsus .] In entom ., the whole tarsus of the first or fore leg of a six-footed insect, in front of the me so tarsus, which in turn is succeeded by the metatarsus.