archegonia

Plural of archegonium. archegonial (är-ke-gō'ni-al), a. [ The flattened fronds... bearing upon tiny stalks which rose from the middle vein of the leaf, the female portion of the plant-the archegonial disks. S. B. Herrick, Plant Life, p. 89. IMG:content-1075.png:[blocks in formation] Encyc. Brit ., XX. 429. archegonium (är-ke-gō'ni-um), n.; pl. arc he gonia (-a). [NL., man, L. arcus, a bow: see arch1 and arc1.] 1. One who uses a bow; a bowman; specifically, in medieval Europe, one who shot with the longbow (which see) and shaft, as distinguished from an arbalister or cro bowman. In Greek art the archer is generally represented in Oriental dre and armor, and the use of the bow by a native Greek in war is rarely mentioned; but one of the two bowmen of the Ægin a temple is dre ed and armed as a Greek, and on a Basilic at an vase at Naples (Heydemann, No. 922), of good Greek work, a painting represents three youths, evidently Greeks, shooting with bows and arrows at a cock on a column. Among the Romans archers are rarely mentioned. Throughout the middle ages the archers formed an important part of the armies of Europe; but, as they were drawn wholly from the peasants and townspeople, the nobility and their retainers were often suspicious of them, and the free use of the bow among the common people was often discouraged. In some countries, too, the arbalist was so much preferred that the longbow came little cifically, the doctrine of spontaneous generation; arc he bios is; abiogenesis. He [Haeckel] considers that, though the doctrine of spontaneous generation (or archegony ) has not been proved, it is quite po ible, and even probable, the arguments against it resting on merely negative results. The Scotsman (newspaper). Arch egos a uri a (är kē-gō-saʼri-ä), n. pl. [NL.: see Arch egos a urus.] A suborder or other group of extinct labyrinthodont amphibians, typified by the genus Arch egos a urus. The name is a loose synonym of Labyrinthodont i a. Arch egos a urus (är kē-gō-sa'rus), n. [NL., Arch elogy treats of principles, and should not be confounded with archæology , which treats of antiquities. Fleming. arc he mas trył, n. [Early mod. E. and ME., also arc him as try ; arch i- + mastery ; perhaps confused with alchemistry .] Supreme skill; mastery of applied science or applied mathematics. N. E. D.