phalacrocoracine (fal"akrokorasin)

[ (Bri on, 1760), merly Carbo. See cut under cormorant. Phalæcean, Phalæcian (fal-e-sē'an, -si'an), n. [ phalangal (fa-lang'gal), a. Same as phalan geal. phalangarthritis (fa-lang-gär-thritis), n. [NL., [ phalange + phalangeal (fa-lan je-al), a . -al.] In an at . and zool ., of or pertaining to a phalanx or the phalanges. Also phalangal , pha- langial , phalange an, phalangian. Phalangeal bone, a phalanx. - Phalangeal proce . (a) Of Deiters's cells, a slender prolongation attached above to a phalanx of the reticular lamina of the Cortian organ. (b) The outwardly directed proce of the head of an outer rod of Corti. Also called phalanx of a rod of Corti. phalange an (fa-lan je-an), a. [ term, used in somewhat more than a generic sense, at first for all moths (when the Linnean Lepidoptera were composed of the genera Pa --an.] Same as phalangeal . pilio and Phalæna ), subsequently for all moths below the genus Sphinx . Then moths were divided by Linnæus into groups, named somewhat in the manner of species - Phalæna bombyx , P noctua , P. geometra , P. pyra- lis , P. tinea , and P. alucita -divisions corresponding to the main modern groups. In 1793 Fabric i us restricted the term to the Phalæna geometra of Linnæus. The term has lapsed, but has given derived names to several groups. 2. [ l . c .] Any moth. phalænian (fa-lē'ni-an), a . and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to the Phalænidæ ; geometrid. Some of the Phalænian larvæ have twelve legs, and some even fourteen. Science, IX. 318. II. n. A member of the Phalænidæ . Phalænidæ (fa-len'i-dē), n . pl . [NL. (Leach, 1819), Phalæna + -idæ.] A family of moths, synonymous with Geometridæ in a broad sense. phalænoid (fā-lēʼnoid), a . and n. [ φάλαινα , a moth, + εἶδος, form.] I. a . Resembling or related to a phalæna; of or pertaining to the Phalænidæ. II. n. A member of the Phaiznida . Phalænopsis (fal-ē-nop's is), n. [NL. (Blume, 1825), from the resemblance of the flower, in form and color, to a large white moth; λαινα , moth, + όψις , appearance.] 1. In bot . , a genus of beautiful orchids of the tribe Vandeæ and the subtribe Sar can theæ , characterized by loosely racemed flowers, their lateral sepals united to the base of the thick and roundish column, and the lip destitute of a spur. There are about 15 species, natives of the Malayan archipelago and eastern India. They are epiphytes, with short leafy stems without pseudobulbs. They bear two-ranked leathery or fleshy ob long leaves, with per sistent bases which sheath the stem. The large flat flowers are white, pink, partly yellow, and crimson, or of other colors, and are remarkable among orchids for their broadly expanded lateral petals, and for a lip often prolonged at the tip into Phalanopsis Schiller i an a. bilis, a white and yellow species from Manila, is the a pair of twisted tendrils or of recurved horns. P. am a Indian butterfly- plant, and the other species the moth orchids or moth-plants of conservatories. P. Schiller i an a is one of the rarest and most beautiful orchids known.