Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
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Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
Leucite.
Sexual generation; amphigony.
Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.
Relating to both parents.
Sexual propagation.
Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.
A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
Ambiguity of speech; equivocation.
A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c/st/t/s.
A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
a family comprising the lancelets.
A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr/, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.
One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
One of the Amphipoda.
A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.
Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
having columns at both ends but not on the sides.
Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.
A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisb/na.
The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.
Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.
Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.
Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.
Resembling a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty bottle; especially, a respiratory sound heard over cavities in the lungs during percussion and auscultation; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
Partly one and partly the other
an antibiotic and antifungal agent (C47H73NO17), produced by a strain of Streptomyces nodosus. It is one of a class of polyene macrolide antibiotics effective against fungal infections. It has a molecular weight of 924.11; it is soluble in oganic solvents but only slightly soluble in water.
a semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.
Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils.
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
An embrace.
Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves.
Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.
Enlargement; amplification.
Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received.
To amplify.
The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
Amplificatory.
Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
One who or that which amplifies.
To become larger.
State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size.
In an ample manner.
same as ampule.
Same as Ampulla, 2.
a small glass bottle which has been or can be sealed hermetically by application of flame to a narrow opening at the top.
A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.
Resembling an ampulla.
Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
Flask-shaped; dilated.
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
One who amputates.
A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.
Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. Ambrosial; immortal.
a genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; native from Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America.
A large city which is an industrial center and the official capital of The Netherlands. Population (2000) = 724,096.
An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.
In a frenzied and reckless manner.
An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]
Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.
Full off dregs; foul.
Capable of being amused.
To muse; to mediate.
Diverted.
Deep thought; muse.
One who amuses.
A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.
Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.
Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.
An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.
A friend.
Characterized by lack of the spinal cord.
An almond.
Akin to, or derived from, the almond.
Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.
An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.
Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.
An organic acid (C6H5.CH(OH).COOH) extracted from bitter almonds; called also mandelic acid and /-Hydroxybenzeneacetic acid.
Almond-bearing.
A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
Almond-shaped.
A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.
Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.
A micro/rganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
That part of the starch granule or granulose which is soluble in water.
The formation of starch.
Of or pertaining to amylogen.
A starchlike substance.
Resembling or containing starch; starchlike.
A disorder characterized by deposit of extracellular amyloid{2} in organs or tissues in an amount that interferes with normal function of the affected organ; it is often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma. Called also amyloid degeneration waxy degeneration and lardaceous degeneration.
The conversion of starch into soluble products, as dextrins and sugar, esp. by the action of enzymes.
Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.
Instrument for determining the amount of starch in a substance.
Starch-forming; amylogenic.
The diastase of the pancreatic juice.
One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
Characterized by lack of muscular tissue.
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