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GLOSSAET. 



ANTHOZOA, animal-flowers, as the 

 Actinia. 



ANTHRACITE, stone-coal. 



ANTHRACOTHERIUM, a pachyderma- 

 tous animal, first found in a bed 

 of anthracite. 



ANTICLINAL AXIS, where the strata 

 diverge from each other in oppo- 

 site directions. 



APTERYX, destitute of wings, ap- 

 plied to a particular genus of 

 bird. 



ARBORESCENT, tree-like. 



ARCA, a chest, or ark. 



ARENACEOUS, composed of sand. 



ARENICOLA, inhabiting the sand. 



ARGILLACEOUS, composed of clay. 



ARGONAUTA, sailors in the ship Argo; 

 a genus of the cephalopoda. 



ARTICULATA, animals without an in- 

 ternal skeleton,and having jointed 

 coverings, as insects. 



ARUNDINACEOUS, (arundo, a reed,) 

 plants of the reed tribe. 



ASCIDIAN, shell-less molluscs, shaped 

 like a bottle. 



ASPERGILLUM, a watering-pot. 



ASTR^EA, a genus of corals. 



AUGITE, a mineral resembling horn- 

 blende, of dark-green or black 

 colour, occurring in volcanic 

 rocks. 



AURICULA, a little ear. 



AVICULA, a little bird. 



B. 



BACULITES, laL, baadiim, a staff. 



BALANUS, an acorn. 



BARYTES, a mineral substance, also 

 called heavy spar. 



BASALT or TRAP, a mineral composed 

 of augite and feldspar. 



BASIN, a depression of strata, in 

 which accumulations of more mo- 

 dern date are deposited. 



BATRACHIAN, allied to the frog, toad. 

 &c. 



BELEMNITE, a long, dart-shaped fossil 

 (whence its name), the dorsal bone 

 of an extinct kind of sepia, or 

 cuttle-fish. 



BELEMNITES, a dart. 



BIFID, divided into two parts, or 

 forked. 



BILOBED, divided into two lobes. 



BIROSTRITES, double-beaked. 



BITUMEN, mineral pitch, an essential 

 element of good coal. 



BLOCKS, ERRATIC, a term equivalent 

 to boulders, applied to transported 

 masses of primary rocks. 



BRACHIAL, belonging to the arm. 



BRACHIOPODA, arm-footed; mollus- 

 cous animals, whose organs of 

 locomotion consist of arm-like 

 processes. 



BRANCHIA, aquatic organs of respira- 

 tion, as gills. 



BRECCIA, a term adopted from the 

 Italian to designate a mass com- 

 posed of angular unworn frag- 

 ments of rocks, as conglomerate 

 is formed of worn and rounded 

 materials. 



BRYOZOA, moss- animals ; polypes 

 that encrust other bodies, as Flua- 

 trce. 



BUCCINUM, a trumpet ; a genus of 

 shells. 



BULIMUS, a genus of shells. 



BULLA, a bubble. 



, like bulla. 



C. 



CALCAIRE GROSSIER, a series of marine 

 tertiary limestones, occurring in 

 the vicinity of Paris. 



CALC SINTER, deposition from ther- 

 mal springs charged with carbo- 

 nate of lime. 



