rhabdite (rabdit)

[ 3. A member of the genus Rhabditis.-4. A phosphide of iron, occurring in minute tetragonal prisms in some meteoric irons. rhabdoid group. rhabdoid (rab'doid), n. [Also rabdoid; rhabdoidal (rab-doi'dal), a. [Also rabdoidal; an at., sagittal: as, the rhabdoidal suture. in rhabdolith (rab'do-lith), n. [ The clubs of the rhabdoliths get worn out of shape, and are last seen, under a high power, as minute cylinders Sir C. W. Thomson, Voyage of Challenger, I. iii. scattered over the field. IMG:content-2186.png:[blocks in formation] rhabdom (rab'dom), n. [ bundle of rods: see rhabdome.] In entom., a special structure in the eye, consisting of a concrescence of the rods developed on the cells of the retina, when these cells are themselves united in a retinula. The rods also become united, and form a special structure, the rhabdom , in the long axis of a group of combined retinal cells. Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 264. rhabdomal (rab'dō-mal), a. [ Having the character of a rhabdome; pertain ing to a rhabdome. rhabdomancer (rab'dō-man-ser), n. [Also rab domancer; of the divining-rod; a bletonist; a douser. rhabdomancy (rab'dō-man-si), n. [Also rab domancy; = μαντεία, divination by means of a rod, Agreeably to the doctrines of rhabdomancy , formerly in vogue, and at the present moment not entirely discarded, a twig, usually of witch hazel, borne over the surface of the ground, indicates the presence of water, to which it is instinctively alive, by stirring in the hand. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 9. rhabdom antic (rab-do-man'tik), a. [Also rab do mantic; vining-rod. rhabdome (rab'dom), n. [ The rhabdus then [ i . e., when cladose] becomes known as the shaft or rhabdome , and the secondary rays are the arms or clad i, collectively the head or cladome of the W. J. Sollas , Encyc. Brit., XXII. 417. spicule. [ ράβδος , a