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- English Word Scyllaea Definition A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.
- English Word Scyllarian Definition One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Scyllite Definition A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.
- English Word Scymetar Definition See Scimiter.
- English Word Scypha Definition See Scyphus, 2 (b).
- English Word Scyphae Definition of Scypha
- English Word Scyphi Definition of Scyphus
- English Word Scyphiform Definition Cup-shaped.
- English Word Scyphistoma Definition The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
- English Word Scyphistomae Definition of Scyphistoma
- English Word Scyphistomata Definition of Scyphistoma
- English Word Scyphobranchii Definition An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
- English Word Scyphomeduse Definition Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.
- English Word Scyphophori Definition An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.
- English Word Scyphus Definition A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
- English Word Scyphus Definition The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
- English Word Scyphus Definition A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
- English Word Scythe Definition An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
- English Word Scythe Definition A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
- English Word Scythe Definition To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.