Pseudis (sud is)

[NL. (Wagler, about 1830), Cystignathidæ, containing frogs the webs of whose hind toes extend up between the metatarsals, and whose tadpoles acquire legs and reach the size of the adults before losing their tails. The jakie, P. paradox a, is an example, inhabiting South America. pseud isodomon (su-di-sod'ō-mon), n. [ IMG:content-1206.png:[blocks in formation] of any one course, however, being alike: op posed to isodomon. In the form characteristic of Greek masonry, in which, however, the pseud isodomon is usually earlier or (especially) later than the best time, the courses are alternately thick and thin, all the thick courses being of the same thickne , and so with all the thin courses. Masonry of this kind is frequent in Roman work. pseudo-. [Before a vowel sometimes pseud-; It is po ibly a pseudo - archaic work of the fifteenth cen tury. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 344, note. pseudo-articulation (sūdō-är-tik-ū-lā'shon), In entom.: ( a ) A deep impre ed line or n. constriction surrounding a part, and resembling a true joint. (b) A pseudo-joint, or part resembling bling a true joint, but not really jointed. pseudo-ascetic (sū"dō-a-set ́ik), n. A pretended ascetic. heaven. These may be termed a set of pseudo - asceticks , who can have no real converse either with themselves or with Shaftesbury , Advice to an Author, i. § 1. pseudo-axis (sū-do-ak's is), n . In bot . , same as sympodium. pseudo bacterium (sūdō-bak-tēʻri-um), n.; pl. pseudo bacteria (-a). A corpuscle resembling or mistaken for a bacterium. It was simply pseudo - bacteria , or broken blood corpus- Science , III. 739. cles. pseudo basidia (sūdō-bā-sid'i-a), n. pl. In bot., false basidia: bodies with the form and appearance of basidia and produced with them. See basidium. pseudo-Bible (sū-dō-bīʼbl), n. A false or pretended Bible. The work which the reader has now the privilege of perusing is as justly entitled to the name of the Koran as the so-called pseudo - bible itself, because the word signifies "that which ought to be read." Southey , The Doctor, Interchapter ix. ( Davies . )