macro pinacoidal (makropinakoidal)

[ Macro piper (mak-rop'i-per), [NL. (F. A. Miguel, 1840), raceæ and the tribe Pipereæ, character ized by an ovary with one cell and one ovule, flowers imperfect, usually in dense axillary spikes, and the fruit se ile, the berries often having the fleshy bracts and rachis united with them to form a mul tiple fruit. There are about 6 species, natives of the islands in the Pacific. They are shrubs, with erect stems, and alternate leaves on petioles dilated at the base. М. methysticum is the Poly nesian ava, cava, or kava, from whose root a stimulating beverage is made. Branch of Macro piper methysti cum, with flowers. (See kava.) excelsum is the native pepper of New Zealand, the kawa-kawa, a small aromatic tree, furnishing a tea and a remedy for toothache, and bearing yellow berries edible except the seeds. [ macro pleural (mak-ro-plöʻral), a. κρός, long, + πλευρά, side: see pleura.] Having long pleure: specifically applied to certain trilobites, in distinction from brachypleural. Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., XXXII. 475. macropod (mak'rō-pod), a. and n. [ [As II. n. A long-legged or long-footed animal. macro podal (mak-rop'ō-dal), a. [As macropod + -al.] Same as macropod . macropod an (mak-rop'o-dan), a . and n. macropod + -an .] Same as macropod . Macropod i a (mak-rō-pō'di-a), n. [NL., macropod .] A genus of spider-crabs or sea-spiders founded by W. E. Leach in 1813 upon the common British species formerly known as Cancer phalangium , and made the type of a family Macropod i ada . Stenorhynchus of Latreille is a synonym. Macropodiadæ (mak" rō-po-dia-dē), n. pl . [NL., Macropod i a + -ada .] "A family of enormously long-legged crabs, typified by the genus Macropod i a . Leptopodiidæ is a synonym. Also Macropodidæ . macropod i an (mak-rō-pō'di-an), a. and n. [As macropod + -ian.] I. a. Long-legged; macropod; specifically, of or pertaining to the Macro podiada. II. n. A long-legged crab; a member of Leach's family Macropod i ada . The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Macropodidæ