An order of plants in which the flowers, which contain five stamens and a pistil with two styles, are supported upon footstalks which spring from the top of the flower stem and spread out like the wires of an umbrella, so as to bring all the flowers in the same head ( Umbel ) nearly to the same level. (Examples, parsley and carrot.)

Hoofed quadrupeds.

Consisting of a single cell.

Containing blood-vessels.

Like a worm.

The highest division of the animal kingdom, so called from the presence in most cases of a backbone composed of numerous joints or Vertebrae , which constitutes the centre of the skeleton and at the same time supports and protects the central parts of the nervous system.