Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Cuvier's system (1817), the first order of Echinodermata, including the three families of starfishes, sea-urchins, and holothurians, which have pedicels protruding through ambulacra or their equivalents: contrasted with Apoda.
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The fruit and the trunk of both species, when cut, exude a gum-resin very much like gamboge which is obtained from the _G. morella_ or _G. pedicellata_, Desr.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Indusia cyathi - formia ohovata pedicellata in pinnuLarum axjl - lis.
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Indu - sia pedicellata ad pinnulas posita cyathiformia
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