These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Dicranacee, Dicranum, Dictamnus.
a family of apocarpous operculate mosses, branching by innovations or with the tops of the fertile The branches several times divided. leaves are lanceolate or subulate; cells prosenchymatous, rarely papillose; capsule oval or cylindrical, arched or straight.
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a genus of mosses, the typical one of the family Dicranacex.
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a genus of plants, belonging to the order Rutaceæ, and found in southern Europe, Asia Minor, etc. D. Fraxinella, false dittany, abounds in volatile oil to such a degree that the atmosphere around it becomes inflammable in hot, dry, and calm weather.
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a nymph of Crete, and one of the attendants of Diana.
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a member of the subclass Dictyogenæ. DICTYOGENÆ, sub-class of monocotyledonous plants with leaves reticulated, often articulated with the stem; branches with the usual structure of endogens, but the rhizomes or under. ground stems have the woody matter disposed in a compact circle, or in wedges containing central cellular tissue, and processes. It often showing medullary comprises three orders, Dioscoreaceæ, or family; and Trilliaceæ, or the trillium tribe; Similaceæ, or the sarsaparilla Far family.
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a family of very lowly multicellular organisms, parasitic in habit. They are found in cuttlefishes, while related organisms known as Orthonectida occur in a brittle-star and in a The largest species Nemertean worm. of the genus Dicyema measures 5-7 millimeters; the smallest is 10 times less.
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a genus of fossil reptiles occurring in a sandstone, supposed historical to be of Triassic age, in southern Africa found, the bones of the head, indicate a and pis India. The principal remains yet gigantic type between the lizards and turtles. Order, Anomodontia.
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or DIDACTICAL, a term applied to every species of writing, whether in verse or prose, the object of which is to teach or explain the rules or principles of any art or science. Thus, to this class of literature belong the writings of Aristotle on grammar, poetry and rhetoric; Longinus's "Treaof Quintilian," etc.; but the term is more exclusively applied to all poetical writings devoted to the communication of instruction on a particular subject, or of a reflective or ethical character, thence called didactic poetry. Among the most celebrated poems of this species may be reckoned in ancient times, that of Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura;" Vergil's "Georgics"; and Horace's "Art of Poetry"; in more recent times, Pope's "Essay on Criticism," and "Essay on Man"; Du Fresnoy's "Art of Painting"; Vida and Boileau's "Art of Poetry."
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one of the three primary divisions into which the class Mammalia is divided, when the structure of the reproductive organs is taken as a basis for classification; the other two being the Ornithodelphia (Monotremata) and the Monodelphia. Didelphia comprises the Marsupialia or those non-placental mammals in which the uterine dilations of the oviducts continue distinct throughout life, opening into two separate vaginæ, which in turn open into a urogenital canal, distinct from the rectum, though embraced by the same sphincter muscle. The young of this subclass are born imperfect, or, as it were, prematurely, and are carried in the pouch or second womb till perfect.
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EUGENE LEMOINE, American prose-writer; born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 22, 1838. Many of his writings have appeared over the signature "Lemoine" and "Timon." He published the "Life of Edgar A. Poe" (1876); "Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte" (1879), republished in London and translated into French and Italian; a "Primer of Criticism" 1883); etc.
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CHARLES (dēd-yā'), a French poet and novelist (1805-1864); born in Geneva. He wrote some novels designed to awaken patriotic sentiment in Italy, and to make known the struggles of the carbonari and other revolutionists against Austrian and papal dominion. Among these novels were: "Underground Rome" (2 vols. 1833); "The Roman Campagna" (1842); and "Fifty Years in the Wilderness" (1857). tise on the Sublime"; the "Institutiones His lyric poems, "Melodies" (1827), are unimportant.
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MARCUS, a Roman emperor, born about A. D. 133. Having filled the offices of questor, ædile, and prætor, he was appointed commander of a legion in Germany, and subsequently governor of Belgica. For his services against the Catti, he was made governor of Dalmatica, and next of lower Germany. Having distinguished himself in Africa and Asia Minor, he returned to Rome, and, on the assassination of Pertinax, made himself emperor by bribing the prætorian guards. He now assumed the name of Marcus Didius Commodus Severus Julianus; but, after a short reign of two months, was killed in his palace by a common soldier, A. D. 193.
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a monster with a double range of teeth, or a double jaw.
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So-called because the only MS. of this legend out curiosity where they do not desire its inquisitive eyes. discovered belonged to A. F. Didot, the famous collector. This version of the Grail Legend lays great stress on the illness of the Fisher King. It tells how the Table Round was constructed, and relates the adventures of Sir Perceval, which are much the same as those told in the Conte del Graal and include the Good Friday incident. It is said that he, with his brother-in-law, Brons, were instructed in the mystic expressions which Christ whispered to Joseph of Arimathea when on the cross.
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a family of Columbacei (pigeons), which some authorities connect with the extinct dodo.
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the typical genus of the family Didunculidæ. D. strigirostris inhabits the Navigator Islands.
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a metallic triad element, symbol Di", atomic weight 144. It occurs along with cerium and lanthanum in the mineral cerite. It is separated from cerium by igniting the oxalate, and treating the resulting oxides with very dilute nitric acid, which does not dissolve the cerium oxide. The filtered solution is mixed with sulphuric acid, concentrated by evaporation, and then a hot solution of potassium sulphate is added, which precipitates the lanthanum and didymium as double sulphates. Didymium can from lanthanum by precipitating half be separated the oxide with ammonia, and leaving the precipitate in contact with the solution; the lanthanum, being the stronger base, then passes into solution in predominant quantity. By repeating the process, the ain dissolved and precipioxides being again tated, the didymium oxide is obtained nearly pure. Didymium is a white metal with a tinge of yellow; specific gravity, 6.5. It tarnishes in dry air; it burns with great brilliancy when thrown into a flame. Its oxide, Di₂O₃, is a dirty bluish color; the nitrate is obtained in large violet crystals by dissolving the oxide in nitric acid. The sulphate, Di2 (SO₂): 6H₂O, forms rose-red crystals. The oxalate is a crystalline powder. trum of a solution der. The specof a salt of didymium contains characteristic dark bands. In botany, the word is applied to a of gasteromycetous genus fungi, consisting of minute plants growing upon leaves, bark, rotten wood, etc., distinguished by its double peridium.
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