CPage 536
- English Word Conidium Definition A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.
- English Word Conifer Definition A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
- English Word Coniferin Definition A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Coniferous Definition Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- English Word Coniferous Definition Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
- English Word Coniform Definition Cone-shaped; conical.
- English Word Coniine Definition See Conine.
- English Word Conimene Definition Same as Olibene.
- English Word Conine Definition A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
- English Word Coniroster Definition One of the Conirostres.
- English Word Conirostral Definition Belonging to the Conirostres.
- English Word Conirostres Definition A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.
- English Word Conisor Definition See Cognizor.
- English Word Conistra Definition Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.
- English Word Conite Definition A magnesian variety of dolomite.
- English Word Conium Definition A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
- English Word Conium Definition The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.
- English Word Conject Definition To throw together, or to throw.
- English Word Conject Definition To conjecture; also, to plan.
- English Word Conjector Definition One who guesses or conjectures.