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- Labyrinth - n. - An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
- Labyrinth - n. - Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
- Labyrinth - n. - Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
- Labyrinth - n. - An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
- Labyrinth - n. - The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
- Labyrinth - n. - A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
- Labyrinth - n. - A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
- Labyrinthal - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
- Labyrinthian - a. - Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
- Labyrinthibranch - a. - Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.
- Labyrinthibranch - n. - One of the Labyrinthici.
- Labyrinthic - a. - Alt. of Labyrinthical
- Labyrinthical - a. - Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
- Labyrinthici - n. pl. - An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
- Labyrinthiform - a. - Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
- Labyrinthine - a. - Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
- Labyrinthodon - n. - A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.
- Labyrinthodont - a. - Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.
- Labyrinthodont - n. - One of the Labyrinthodonta.
- Labyrinthodonta - n. pl. - An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
- Minotaur - n. - A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
- Utriculus - n. - A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.
- Cochlea - n. - An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
- Perilymph - n. - The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.
- Sacculus - n. - A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.