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Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
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A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
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The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
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The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
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A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.
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A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
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The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
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The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.
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An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
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Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
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Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
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The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
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The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
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In the form of basalt; columnar.
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The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.
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Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
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