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(Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Caltha
(C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright
yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under
the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.

Marsh"y (-&ybreve;), a. [E.
Marsh.]

1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy;
fenny.

2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes;
as, a marshy weed. Dryden.

Mar"si*po*branch` (?), n.
(Zoöl.) One of the Marsipobranchia.

||Mar"si*po*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pouch + &?; a gill.] (Zoöl.) A
class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their
purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs,
and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys
and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also
Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

Mar*su"pi*al (mär*sū"p&ibreve;*al),
a. [Cf. F. marsupial.

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