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GOMPHOSIS

Volume 9 · 45 words · 1815 Edition

in Anatomy, that kind of articulation by which the teeth are fixed in the jaw-bone. See ANATOMY, No. 2.

GOMPHRÆNA, GLOBE AMARANTH; a genus of plants belonging to the pentandra clas; and in the natural method ranking under the 54th order, Mifcel-laneæ. See BOTANY Index.