nasiterna

[Lat.=a watering-pot with a large spout.] Ornith.: Pigmy Parrot, a genus of Camptolophine from New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with seven species, all of small size. Prevailing color, green. (R. B. Sharpe.) Wallace reduces the species to three. nā-şō-, pref. [Lat. nas us=the nose.] Connected with the nose. naso-labial, a. Relating or pertaining to the nose and lip; as, the naso - labial line. naso-malar, a. Relating or pertaining to the nose and malar bone. IMG:content-1573.jpg:[blocks in formation] two horizontal lines meeting at the most depre ed point of the nasal bones in the middle line, and resting on the middle of the outer margin of the orbits. In Europe ans the average angle thus formed is 131°; in African Negroes, 134°; in Austral i ans, 135°. In all the true Mongolian races the average exceeds 140°. (2) Naso - malar index: Anthrop.: A numerical index proposed by Mr. Old field Thomas, to supersede the naso-malar angle described above. The index is formed by the relative lengths of ( a ) a line pa ing over the lowest part of the nasal bones, from a point on the anterior surface of one of the outer walls of the orbit to the corresponding point on the other side; and (b) a line between the same two points measured directly, and not over the nasals. The second line is taken as 100, and the index is formed by the first. [MESOPIC, PLATYOPIC, PROÕPIC.]