echinops

[Gr. echinos a hedgehog, a soa-urchin, and ops, or ops =the eye, the face, the countenance.] Bot.: A genus of composite plants, the typical one of the sub-order Cynareæ (q. v.). They have single-flowered heads, arranged in dense round clusters at the ends of the branches, so as to look like one great composite flower. They occur in Asia Minor, the South of Europe, India, . ě-chi-nops-id-e-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. echinops (q. v.), and Lat. fom. pl. adj. suff. -idee .] Bot.: A sub-tribe of composite plants, tribe Cyně-chi-no-rhynchus, s . [Gr. echinos a hedgehog, and rhynghos =a snout, a muzzle.] aree. 1590 Zool.: A genus of Entozoa which contains the most noxious of the intestinal parasites, but happily none of them infest man. The largest species ( Echinorhynchus gigas ) is found in the intestines of the hog. Many others, not a few of them microscopic, are found in the intestinal canal of fishes. hog, and sperm a -seed.] e-chi-no-sper-mum, s. [Gr. echino (s) = a hedge Bot.: A genus of Boraginaccse, tribe Cynoglo em. The tube of the corolla is straight; the calyx is equally divided, terete; the nuts triquetrous; their margins muricated. Echinospermum Lappula and E. deflexum have been found in England, but they were brought from the Continent in ballast.