pentamerous (pen tamer us)

[ by, 1813), see pentamerous.] A genus of brachiopods, typical of the family Pent a me rid a. pentameter (pen-tam'e-ter), n. and a. [ IMG:content-2643.jpg:[merged small][ocr errors] The first half of the line ended almost without exception in a complete word and often with a pause in the sense. Spondees were excluded from the second half-line. The halves of the line often terminated in words of similar ending and emphasis, generally a noun and its attributive. This meter received its name from a false analysis of some ancient metricians, who explained it as consisting of two dactyls, a spondee, and two anapests. See elegiac, I., 1. II. a. Having five metrical feet: as, a pen tameter verse. pentametrize (pen-tam'et-rīz), v. t.; pret. and pp. pent a me tri zed, ppr. pent a me tri zing. [ The insertion of an apt word which pentametrizes the verse. Southey, The Doctor, Fragment on Mortality. pent a my ron (pen-tam'i-ron), n. [= Gr. πεντά μυρον , a kind of ointment, πέντε , five, + μύρον , an unguent or plant-e ence: see myrobalan .] In med ., an ancient ointment composed of five ingredients, said to have been storax, mastic, wax, opobalsum, and nard ointment. Dunglison . pentander (pen-tan'der), n . [ Pent and ria .] A plant of the cla Pent and ria . Pent and ria (pen-tan'dri-ä), n. pl . [NL., πέντε , five, + ἀνήρ ( ἀνδρ- ) , male (in mod. bot. a stamen).] In bot . , in the Linnean artificial system of cla ification, a cla of plants characterized by having flowers with five stamens. pentandrian (pen-tan'dri-an), a. [ Pentan dria + -an . ] Same as pentandrous .