oct a echos (oktaekos)

[NL., Great Octaëchos . See paracletice . Also octoéchos, octoéchus , octaedral (ok-ta-e'dral), a . Same as octahedral , octaëdrite (ok-ta-e'drīt), n. and hardenedeira and the car . bullata is the stinkwood of Natal, a fine timber-tree, the wood being extremely strong and durable. O. cupular is is called Isle- of-France cinnamon. O. Leucoxylon , of tropical South America and the West Indies, is in the latter called white- octaëdron (ok-ta-e'dron), n. wood and Rio Grande sweetwood or loblolly - sweetwood . 0. opifera in northern South America affords an oleoresin, called sa afras or laurel -oil, obtained by boring into the trunk. ocrea (ok'rē-ä), n.; pl. ocrea (-6). [L., a greave.] 1. In bot.. bot., a sheathing stipule, or a pair of stipules united into a sheath around the stem, like a legging or the leg of a boot; also sometimes, in mo es, the thin sheath around the seta, terminating the vaginula.-2. In zoöl., a sheath; an investing part part like or likened to an ocrea of a plant. Also, erroneously, ochrea. Ocreatæ (ok-rē-ā'tē), n. pl. [NL., Ocrea of Poly fem. pl. of L. ocreatus: see ocreate.] gonum in car In Sun devall's cla ification of natum. birds, the first phalanx of the cohort Cichlo morphæ, embracing seven families of Oscines having booted tarsi, such as the thrushes, nightingales, European redstarts and redbreasts, American bluebirds, the chats, dip thrushes, pers, etc.: so called from the fusion of the tarsal envelop into a continuous boot, or ocrea.