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Quillwort

Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four tubed rushlike leaves rising from a corm and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases There are about seventeen American species usually growing in the mud under still shallow water So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves...

Nankeen

A species of cloth of a firm texture originally brought from China made of a species of cotton Gossypium religiosum that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent...

Nautilus

The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific but many other species are found fossil The shell is spiral symmetrical and chambered or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle See Tetrabranchiata...

meadowlark

Any species of Sturnella a genus of North American songbirds allied to the starlings The common species Sturnella magna has a yellow breast with a black crescent...

VerbarMysis

A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water the opossum shrimps One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America and is largely eaten by the whitefish The marine species form part of the food of right whales...

VerbarMyroxylon

A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America the different species of which yield balsamic products among which are balsam of Peru and balsam of Tolu The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum...

Myrmecophyte

A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it Special adaptations for this purpose exist thus Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns and species of Cecropia have stem cavities...

VerbarMygale

A genus of very large hairy spiders of the family Ctenizidae having four lungs and only four spinnerets They do not spin webs but usually construct tubes in the earth which are often furnished with a trapdoor The South American bird spider Mygale avicularia and the crab spider or matoutou Mygale cancerides are among the largest species They are also called trapdoor spiders Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas as the Texas tarantula Mygale Hentzii...

VerbarMusa

A genus of perennial herbaceous endogenous plants of great size including the banana Musa sapientum the plantain Musa paradisiaca of Linnaeligus but probably not a distinct species the Abyssinian Musa Ensete the Philippine Island Musa textilis which yields Manila hemp and about eighteen other species See Illust of Banana and Plantain...

Motmot

Any one of several species of long tailed passerine birds of the genus Momotus having a strong serrated beak In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket shaped at the tip when mature The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape They feed on insects reptiles and fruit and are found from Mexico to Brazil The name is derived from its note...

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