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Cyamus
(gcide) | Cyamus \Cyamus\ prop. n.
a genus of whale lice.
Syn: genus Cyamus.
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cyamus
(wn) | Cyamus
n 1: whale lice [syn: Cyamus, genus Cyamus] |
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Cyamus ceti
(gcide) | Whale \Whale\, n. [OE. whal, AS. hw[ae]l; akin to D. walvisch,
G. wal, walfisch, OHG. wal, Icel. hvalr, Dan. & Sw. hval,
hvalfisk. Cf. Narwhal, Walrus.] (Zool.)
Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one
of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred
feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and
baleen, or whalebone.
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Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the
toothed whales (Odontocete), including those that
have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see {Sperm
whale}); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales
(Mysticete), comprising those that are destitute of
teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper
jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of
whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale
(see Illust. of Right whale), the Biscay whale, the
Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under Gray), the
humpback, the finback, and the rorqual.
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Whale bird. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels
which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and
floating oil; especially, Prion turtur (called also
blue petrel), and Pseudoprion desolatus.
(b) The turnstone; -- so called because it lives on the
carcasses of whales. [Canada]
Whale fin (Com.), whalebone. --Simmonds.
Whale fishery, the fishing for, or occupation of taking,
whales.
Whale louse (Zool.), any one of several species of degraded
amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus Cyamus,
especially Cyamus ceti. They are parasitic on various
cetaceans.
Whale's bone, ivory. [Obs.]
Whale shark. (Zool.)
(a) The basking, or liver, shark.
(b) A very large harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) native
of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet
long.
Whale shot, the name formerly given to spermaceti.
Whale's tongue (Zool.), a balanoglossus.
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Hyoscyamus
(gcide) | Hyoscyamus \Hy`os*cy"a*mus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? a sow, hog + ?
a bean.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade
family; henbane.
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2. (Med.) The leaves of the black henbane ({Hyoscyamus
niger}), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.
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Hyoscyamus niger
(gcide) | Hyoscyamine \Hy`os*cy"a*mine\, n. [See Hyoscyamus.] (Chem.)
An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and
regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other
alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is
extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp,
offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is
very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like
belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.
[1913 Webster]Hyoscyamus \Hy`os*cy"a*mus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? a sow, hog + ?
a bean.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade
family; henbane.
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2. (Med.) The leaves of the black henbane ({Hyoscyamus
niger}), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.
[1913 Webster]Henbane \Hen"bane`\, n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (Hyoscyamus niger). All
parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for
the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic
fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade,
from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
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cyamus
(wn) | Cyamus
n 1: whale lice [syn: Cyamus, genus Cyamus] |
genus cyamus
(wn) | genus Cyamus
n 1: whale lice [syn: Cyamus, genus Cyamus] |
genus hyoscyamus
(wn) | genus Hyoscyamus
n 1: genus of poisonous herbs: henbane [syn: Hyoscyamus,
genus Hyoscyamus] |
hyoscyamus
(wn) | Hyoscyamus
n 1: genus of poisonous herbs: henbane [syn: Hyoscyamus,
genus Hyoscyamus] |
hyoscyamus muticus
(wn) | Hyoscyamus muticus
n 1: poisonous herb whose leaves are a source of hyoscyamine
[syn: Egyptian henbane, Hyoscyamus muticus] |
hyoscyamus niger
(wn) | Hyoscyamus niger
n 1: poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves
and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and
scopolamine [syn: henbane, black henbane, {stinking
nightshade}, Hyoscyamus niger] |
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