thallogan

[Gr. thallos =a young shoot, and gennaō to produce.] Bot. (pl.): A cla of plants, the lowest of all in organization. They have no wood properly so called, but the stem and leaves are undistinguishable. There are no stomates or breathing pores and no trachese. They are mere ma es of cells. Their reproduction is by a special disintegration solidification of some part of their ti ue taneously effected. Alliances: Algales, Fungales, and Lichen a les. ( Lindley .) thăl-log-en-ous, a. [Eng. thallogen ; -ous.] Bot . Of or belonging to the Thallogens. thăl-16id, a . [Eng. thall (us); -oid.] Bot.: Resembling a thallus. †thalloid-hepaticæ, s . pl . Bot.: Hepatice having a thallus, as distinguished from those which have leaves. They po e a well marked epidermis, having a few scattered stomates, and putting out rhizoids from its under side. thăl-lo-phyte, s. [Gr. thallos a young shoot, and phyton =a plant.] Bot.: The same as THALLOGEN (q. v.). sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0964.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The fusion of root, stem, and specially leaves, into one general ma . 2. The frond of Jungermanniaceae and Hepatice. 3. The lobed frond of Lichens. 4. Any algal. ond member of the comparison. Than is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case; as "What I should be, all but le then he Whom thunder hath made greater." Milton: P. L., i. 257. But sometimes the object compared is put in the nia.] Ornith.: Wood-nymphs; a genus of Trochil ide, with eleven species extending from Brazil to Ecua dor, ranging northward as far as Costa Rica. Wings and tail of moderate size, the latter forked; bill moderate and slightly curved; tarsi clothed with feathers. Thăm-muz, Tăm-muz, s. [Heb. hatammuz ; Greek ho Thammous , both the Tammuz; Vulg. Adonis .] 1. The tenth month of the Jewish civil year, containing twenty-nine days, and answering to a part of June and a part of July. The name was probably borrowed from the Syrian. 2. A word occurring once in the Old Testament, in a pa age of extreme obscurity (Ezek. viii. 14), concerning which many conjectures have been made. The chief are: (1) That of Jerome, who records a tradition identifying Thammuz with Adonis. This opinion was adopted by Cornel i us à Lapide, Osiander, Selden, Calmet, Gesenius, Ewald, . (2) That of Luther, who regarded Thammuz as a name of Bacchus; and (3) that of Calvin, who believed Thammuz to be the Egyptian Osiris. The opinion of Jerome is generally accepted. Milton, following Jerome, refers to the legend of the wounding and worship of Adonis or Thammuz , and the verse of Scripture, in these fine lines: "The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat: Whose wanton pa ions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah." Paradise Lost , B. i., 446. thăm-năs-træ-ą, subst. [Gr. thamnos a bush, and Lat. astræa (q. v.).] Palæont.: A genus of Actinozoa; twenty-seven species are in the British Jura ic, and three in the Upper Greensand. ( Ethe ridge .)