n.
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. →
n.
A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. →
n. pl.
A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado. →
n.
That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate. →
n.
The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism. →