eucalypt (ukalipt)

A plant belonging to the genus Eucalyptus. Eucalyptocrinidæ (ū-ka-lip-to-krin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Eucalyptocrinus + -ida.] A family of fo il crinoids, typified by the genus Eucalypto crinus. Also Calyptocrinida. eucalyptocrinite (ūka-lip-tok'ri-nīt), n. narrower to wider laws, to make nature intelligible. That which I meditate and propound is not a cat a leps i a, but eucatalepsia ; not denial of the capacity to understand, but provision for understanding truly. Bacon , Novum Organum (ed. Spedding), I. § 126. Eucephalal (u-sef'a-lä), n. [NL., fem. sing. of eucephalus: see eucephalous.] In ornith., a genus of humming-birds, so called from the beauty of the head. E. gray i is a fine Ecuador i an species, with blue head and golden-green body. Reichenbach, 1853. Eucephala (u-sefa-lä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of eucephalus: see eucephalous.] In entom., a group of tipularian or nemocerous dipterous insects, the larvæ of which have usually a well-differentiated head. eucephalous (u-sef'a-lus), a. [ After moulting the larval skin the eucephalous larvæ become quiescent or freely moveable pupæ. Claus, Zoology (trans.), p. 577.