merostome (merostom)

One of the Mero stomata, as a trilobite or a horseshoe-crab. merostomous (me-ros'tō-mus), a. [ -merous. [ Greek. Me roving i an (mer-ō-vin'ji-an), a. and n. [F. Mérovingien, The writing of the Frankish empire to which the title of Me roving i an has been applied had a wider range than the other national hands. It had a long career both for diplomatic and literary purposes. In this writing, as it appears in documents, we see that the Roman cursive is subjected to a lateral pre ure, so that the letters received a curiously cramped appearance, while the heads and tails are exaggerated to inordinate length. Encyc . Brit ., XVIII. 157. II. n. A member of the family to which the first dynasty of French kings belonged. See I. meroxene (me-rok'sēn), n. [ μέρος , a part, + ξένος , strange, foreign.] A variety of the kind of mica called biotite , distinguished by its optical characters. See biotite and mica2 . The name was early given by Breithaupt to the Vesuvian biotite, but has recently been limited by Tschermak to those kinds of biotite in which the optic axial plane is parallel to the plane of symmetry. merpeople (mer'pē"pl), n. pl. [ tail: a collective name for mermaids and mermen. Gill, Forum, III. 85.