In older classification systems, amoeboids, under the taxon name Sarcodina, had been divided into several morphological categories based on the form and structure of their pseudopods.

' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or " unction " ( an older term with the same meaning ) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person.

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Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

Bald Eagles are not actually bald, the name derives from the older meaning of the word, " white headed ".

Some older astronomy books give an alternative spelling of the name, Camelopardus.

Himmerland ( Old Danish Himbersysel ) is generally thought to preserve their name, in an older form without Grimm's law ( PIE k > Germ.

) The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name " Stern-Halma " as a variation of the older American game Halma.

This was actually the formal name of a person, used by older people to address him, and the one he would use the most in the first decades of his life ( as the person grew older, younger generations would have to use one of the courtesy names instead ).

The kingdom ruled by Kenneth's descendants — older works used the name House of Alpin to describe them but descent from Kenneth was the defining factor, Irish sources referring to Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín (" the Clan of Kenneth MacAlpin ") — lay to the south of the previously dominant kingdom of Fortriu, centred in the lands around the River Tay.

Sometimes an official name change is resisted in other languages and the older name may remain in common use.

However, Mrs. Gaugain, in her 1840 The Lady's Assistant for Executing Useful and Fancy Designs in Knitting, Netting, and Crotchet Work, refers to " Tambour, or Crotchet ," then proceeds to call it " tambour " in all the instructions, indicating a strong connection believed in at the time of crochet's beginning, and that it was, perhaps, the older name.

The use of the name is relatively recent, and the older term is still common.

In some older documents, and in the name Bevatron, the symbol BeV is used, which stands for billion electron volts ; it is equivalent to the GeV.

Some people refer to Emacs Lisp as Elisp, at the risk of confusion with an older unrelated Lisp dialect with the same name.

This was in turn inspired by an older program with the same name running on TOPS-20.

Grimm took Forseti, " praeses ", to be the older form of the name, first postulating an unattested Old High German equivalent * forasizo ( cf.

So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.

This method frequently results in the same name as the older method would, and is far more convenient to use.

Most historians believe that the older name for Ghent, ' Ganda ', is derived from the Celtic word ' ganda ' which means confluence.

Gower uses the older name, Alhaiot ( VII: 1338 ).

Now, the older name is widely deemed offensive, but the term hillbilly music is still used on occasion to refer to old-time music or bluegrass.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

`` He was not much older than myself, '' writes the narrator, `` when he began to feel the impact of that human mystery which now obsesses me, and which makes me begin, perhaps, to understand him ''.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

She was the last living of the older generation.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

Much of the older experimental work on respiratory infections was accomplished by very artificial procedures.

The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.

Codification was followed in all countries by a growing amount of legislation, some changing and adjusting the older law, much dealing with entirely new situations.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.