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Townsendia
- noun - genus of western American low tufted herbs: Easter daisy
Toxiphobia
- - An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.
Toxoglossa
- - A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.
Trachearia
- - A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
Tramontana
- noun - a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean
Trematodea
- - An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
Tricholoma
- noun - agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible
Trifoliata
- noun - small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
Trigonella
- noun - Old World genus of frequently aromatic herbs
Tritanopia
- noun - rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow