The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . InGiinthers classification, a group of opistho-glossate batraehians, having the toes dilated:distinguished from Oxydactyla. Also called Dis-codactyla Platydactylus (plat-i-dakti-lus), n. [NL.(Cuvier, 1817):see platydacty-to»s.] 1. A ge-nus of geckolizards, or muralisis the mauntamctts,ofthe countries bor-dering the il editor-ranean, isknownasthe ta In eiitom., agenus of or-thopterous in-sects. Brulle,1835. platydolichoce
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . InGiinthers classification, a group of opistho-glossate batraehians, having the toes dilated:distinguished from Oxydactyla. Also called Dis-codactyla Platydactylus (plat-i-dakti-lus), n. [NL.(Cuvier, 1817):see platydacty-to»s.] 1. A ge-nus of geckolizards, or muralisis the mauntamctts,ofthe countries bor-dering the il editor-ranean, isknownasthe ta In eiitom., agenus of or-thopterous in-sects. Brulle,1835. platydolichoce-phalic (plat-i-dol i-ko-se-fal-ik or -sefa-lik),a. [< jHatyicejJhalic) + doUchocephaUc.^ Flatand narrow; both platycephalic and dolicho-cephalic: said of a skull. Platyelmia (plat-i-elmi-a), n. pi. [NL., < , flat, + ilfuvQ (eX/iivd-), worm.] Sameas Plutyhetmiittha. Platygaster (plat-i-gaster),«. [NL. (Latreille,1809) (cf. Gr. 7r?jiTvyaaTup, flat-bellied), < , broad, flat, + yaarr/p, stomach: see gas-ter^.] 1. A genus of parasitic hymenopterous. nV. broad, flat, + }6vv, knee.] A genus of fossil peccaries of the family Dicotylidie, founded by Le Conte in 1848 upon remains of the late Ter-tiary of America. Also called Eyops, Proto- eJiwriiS, and (plat-i-helminth), n. [< NL. Plalylielmiiitka.] A member of the Plntyhcl- mintha, in any sense; a flatworm, as a cestoid, trematoid, turbellarian, or , Platyhelminthes (plati- hel-miuthil, -thez), «,^)?. [NL., < Gr. irXanV,broad, flat, + ey^/iivg (ilftivB-), a worm: see hel-minth.] A superordinal or other high groupof worms, variously named and rated, includ-ing forms more or less flattened, usually ovate,and indistinctly segmented; the flatworms, orcestoids, trematoids, and turbellarians, toge-ther contrasted with the roundworms or ue-mathclminths. In some of the older anangements,under the name Platyelmiay they were divided into the non-parasitic orde
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