| gyro | (n) a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread |
| gyrocompass | (n) a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead |
| gyromitra | (n) any fungus of the genus Gyromitra |
| gyromitra californica | (n) a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California, Syn. California false morel |
| gyromitra esculenta | (n) a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown, Syn. beefsteak morel, brain mushroom |
| gyromitra fastigiata | (n) a lorchel with deep brownish red fertile part and white stalk, Syn. Gyromitra brunnea |
| gyromitra gigas | (n) a gyromitra with a large irregular stalk and fertile part that is yellow to brown and wrinkled; has early fruiting time |
| gyromitra infula | (n) a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even, Syn. saddled-shaped false morel |
| gyromitra sphaerospora | (n) a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains, Syn. round-spored gyromitra |
| gyroscope | (n) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction, Syn. gyro |
| Gyrodus | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gyro`s round + 'odoy`s tooth. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct oölitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyrogonite | n. [ Gr. gy^ros circle, ring + go`nos fruit. ] (Paleon.) The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyroidal | a. [ Gr. gy^ros circle + -oid + -al. ] 1. Spiral in arrangement or action. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Crystallog.) Having the planes arranged spirally, so that they incline all to the right (or left) of a vertical line; -- said of certain hemihedral forms. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Opt.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyrolepis | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gyro`s round + lepi`s scale. ] (Paleon.) A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandstone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyroma | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gyroy^n to round, bend, fr. gyro`s round. ] A turning round. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyromancy | n. [ Gr. gy^ros ring, circle + -mancy: cf. F. gyromancie. ] A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyron | n. [ F. giron; of German origin. See Gore a piece of cloth. ] (Her.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyronny | a. [ F. gironné. ] (Her.) Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; -- said of an escutcheon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyro-pigeon | n. [ L. gyrare to revolve + E. pigeon. ] A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Gyroscope | n. [ Gr. gy^ros ring, circle + -scope. ] 1. A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion. [ 1913 Webster ] |
