sapyga

[Gr. saos, only found in contract. 80s=sound, and pyge the rump. ( Aga iz.)] Entom.: The sole genus of Sapygide (q. v.). They make holes in walls and in decaying wood. They are believed to occupy the burrows dug by some bees. sa-pyg-1-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. sapyg ( a ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] Entom.: A family of Fo orial Hymenoptera; the feet in both sexes slender and not largely spinose, and the antenne, which are at least as long as the head and thorax, somewhat thickened at their extremity. IMG:content-0944.png:[blocks in formation] Saracen's consoud, s. Bot .: Senecio sarracenicus . Săr-a-çen-Ic, *Săr-a-çen-Ic-al, a. [English Saracen ; -ic, -ical .] Pertaining to the Saracens. Saracenic architecture, s. [MOHAMMEDANARCHITECTURE.] *Săr'-a-çen-Işm, 8. [English Saracen ; -ism.] Mohammedanism. (Gauden: Tears of the Church, p. 566.) săr-a-gû, s. [SAR.] sarcology *sar'-cle, v. t. [Fr. sarcler , from Lat. sarculo, from sarculum a weeding tool.] To weed, as corn with a hoe. "As for the sarcling or second harrowing."-P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xviii., ch. xxi. sar-co, sarc-, pref . [Gr. sarx (gen it. sarkos )= flesh.] Fleshy. sar-co-bā-sis, s . [Pref. sarco- , and Gr. basis =a foundation.] Bot.: A car cerule.