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Hol`o*phan"er*ous (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?; visible, fr. &?; to appear.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Holometabolic.

Hol`o*pho"tal (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?;, &?;, light.] (Opt.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

Hol"o*phote (?), n. A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Hol`o*phras"tic (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?; to speak: cf. F. holophrastique.] Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Hol`o*phyt"ic (?), a. [Holo + Gr.&?; a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Holophytic nutrition (&?;), that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Hol`o*rhi"nal (?), a. [Holo + Gr.&?;, nose.] (Anat.) Having the nasal bones contiguous.

Hol`o*sid"er*ite (?), n. [Holo + siderite.] (Min.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Ho*los"te*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Holostei.

||Ho*los"te*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + &?; a bone.] ||(Zoˆl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, ||bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

Hol`o*ster"ic (?), a. [Holo + Gr.stereo`s solid.] Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.

||Hol`o*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + sto`ma, ||-atos, mouth.] (Zoˆl.) An artificial division of gastropods, ||including those that have an entire aperture.

Ho*los"to*mate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Same as Holostomatous.

Hol`o*stom"a*tous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

Hol"o*stome (?), n. [Holo + Gr. sto`ma mouth.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Holostomata.

||Ho*los"tra*ca (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + &?; shell of a ||testacean.] (Zoˆl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including ||those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

Hol"o*thure (?), n. [L. holothuria, pl., a sort of water polyp, Gr. &?;.] (Zoˆl.) A holothurian.

Hol`o*thu"ri*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea.

Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and bÍche de mËr. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.

||Hol`o*thu`ri*oi"de*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Holothure, and -oid.] ||(Zoˆl.) One of the classes of echinoderms. They have a more or less ||elongated body, often flattened beneath, and a circle of tentacles, ||which are usually much branched, surrounding the mouth; the skin is ||more or less flexible, and usually contains calcareous plates of ||various characteristic forms, sometimes becoming large and scalelike. ||Most of the species have five bands (ambulacra) of sucker-bearing ||feet along the sides; in others these are lacking. In one group ||(Pneumonophora) two branching internal gills are developed; in ||another (Apneumona) these are wanting. Called also Holothurida, ||Holothuridea, and Holothuroidea.

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||||Ho*lot"ri*cha (h*lt"r*k), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + ||||qri`x, tricho`s, a hair.] (Zoˆl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, ||||having cilia all over the body.

Hol"our (?), n. [OF. holier.] A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

{ Holp (?), Hol"pen (?), } imp. & p. p. of Help. [Obs.] Shak.

Hol"som (?), a. Wholesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hol"ster (?), n. [D. holster; skin to AS. heolstor den, cave, fr. helan to conceal, and to Icel. hulstr case, Goth. hulistr covering, veil, huljan to cover. &radic;17. See Hele to cover, Hell, and cf. Housing, Houss.] A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.

Hol"stered (?), a. Bearing holsters. Byron.

Holt (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.