megapterine (mega pterin)

and n. [As Megaptera + -ine1.] I. a. Having long fins, as a finner-whale; belonging to the Mega pterinæ. II. n. A member of the Mega pterin a. Megarhynchus (meg-a-ring'kus), n. [NL., IMG:content-0422.png:[graphic] Megarhynchus pitangua, life-size. the family Tyrannida, of which M. pitangua of Brazil is the type, characterized by an enormous bill. M. mexican us of Mexico and Central America and M. chrysogaster of Ecuador are other species. The genus was named by Thunberg in 1824, and is also called Scaphorhynchus, Platyrhynchus, and Mega stoma. Mega Megarian (me-ga'ri-an), a. [L. Megara, longing to Megara, a city of ancient Greece, or to Megaris, a territory between Attica and Corinth, of which it was the capital; Megaric. Megarian school, a school of philosophy founded at Megara about 400 B. c. by Euclid, a native of that city, and a disciple of So crates. The philosophers of this school taught that the only reality is the incorporeal e ence; that the material world has no real existence; that change is inconceivable; that only the actual is po ible; that the good is the only real; and that virtue is the knowledge of the good. The school made much of sophisms, and cultivated a sort of logic of refutation, which gave it the name of the eristic or dialectical school. Megaric (me-gar'ik), a. and n. [L. Megaricus, II. n. A Megarian philosopher, or a follower of the Megarian school. megaron (megʻa-ron), n.; pl. megara (-rä). [