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Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
Shaped like a little twig or rod.
A comma.
A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
Green.
Quality or state of being viridescent.
Slightly green; greenish.
A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
Freshness; soundness.
Viridity; greenness.
Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
See Vermilion.
A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.
A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.