- Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high
degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes
result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. - Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal
body are renewed.
- Fatty substance obtained from wool - In all, no messy wool fat - Wool fat - Wool grease - A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and
certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues
generally.
- A minute, slender granule, or point. - Same as Spicula. - Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the
tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in
most Alcyonaria.
- Audacity - Audacity or boldness - Bravery is never in dispute - Bundle of fibres may get lost in times of terror - Bundle of fibres that you may lose - cheekiness - Cool courage
- A hanger on - Organism living on a host - Peel off covering as it is a leech - Pirate’s a terrible freeloader - One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at
another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a
toady; a sycophant. - A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other
plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; --
sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte. - A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at
its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
- The reception of one part within another. - The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a
tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it;
specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small
intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. - The interposition of new particles of formative
material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a
starch grain. - The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a
living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed
by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized
substance of its various tissues and organs.