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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



ANCYLO'CLADUS. fr. gr. agkulos, 

 curved ; klados, a branch. A ge- 

 nus of plants. 



ANCTL'ODON. fr. gr. agkulos, curved ; 

 odous, odontos, a tooth. A genus 

 of fishes. 



ANHALU'SITE. A mineral first ob- 

 served in Andalusia in Spain. It 

 is very hard arid infusible, and 

 consists chiefly of alu'mina and 

 si'lica. Made. 



ANDRO'CEUM. fr. gr. aicr, man ; oi- 

 kos, a house. A term applied to 

 the male apparatus in .plants, 

 commonly called the stamens. 



ANDRO'GYNOUS. fr. gr. oner, a man ; 

 gune, woman. Producing both 

 sexes on the same root, or in the 

 same flower. Hermaphrodite. 



AJSDRO'PHORE. fr. gr. andros, the 

 genitive of aner, man ; anther,&nd 

 phoreo, I bear. Anther-bearer. A 

 kind of sheath to the pistil. 



ANDRO'PHOHUM:. Lat. Androphore. 



ANEL'LIDA. ) fr. lat. anelius, a little 



ANEL'LIDES. ring. It is, also, 

 written annelida, and annelides. 

 A class of articulate animals. 



ANEL'LIDJE. ) Plur. of anellida and 



ANNE'LIDJE. annelida. 



ANE'NTEROUS. fr. gr. a, priv. ; en- 

 tera, bowels. Applied to infuso- 

 rial animalcules which have no 

 intestinal canal. 



ANFRA'CTUOSE. Full of turnings 

 and winding passages : spiral. 



ANFRACTUO'SITY. fr. lat. anfractus, 

 the bending or winding of a way. 

 An irregular hollow or groove. 



ANGEI'OCARPOITS. fr. gr. aggeion, a 

 vessel ; karpos, fruit. Applied to 

 plants which have their fruits 

 seated in envelopes not forming 

 part of the calyx: as the acorn, 

 which is seated in a cupula. 



ANGIO'STOMA. fr.gr. aggeion, a ves- 

 sel; stoma, mouth. A tribe of 

 mollusks. (p. 56, Book v.) 



ANGIOSPE'RMJA (angeiospermia). fr. 

 gr. aggeion, a vessel ; sperma, seed. 

 A Linnaean order of plants. 



ANGEIOSPEBMOTTS. Applied to those 



plants which have their seeds en- 

 closed in a vessel, or pericarp ; as 

 in the leguminosaj or bean-tribe. 



ANGLE. fr. lat. angulus, which is 

 derived from the Greek agkulo^n 

 curve. The space intercepted 

 between two lines that meet at a 

 point. The Facial angle is formed 

 by two lines, one of which passes 

 vertically along the face from the 

 incisor teeth, and the other is 

 drawn horizontally from the ex- 

 ternal opening of the ear to the 

 same teeth. 



ANGLE OF DIP. In Geology: the dip 

 of strata is the point of the com- 

 pass towards which they slope 

 while the angle they form with 

 the plane of the horizon is called 

 the angle of dip. 



AN'GLICUS. Lat. English. 



AN'GUILLA. Lat. An eel. 



ANGUIL'LIFORMES. fr. lat. anguilla 

 eel; forma, shape. Eel-shaped 

 Systematic name of a tribe of eel 

 shaped fishes. 



ANGUI'NA. Lat. from anguis, a ser 

 pent. Systematic name of a fa 

 mily of ophidians. 



AwGtri'ifus. Lat. Belonging or re 

 lating to serpents. 



AXGUIS. Lat. A snake. 



ANGU'LINERVE. fr. lat. angulus, a 

 corner, an angle; nervus, a nerve 

 or sinew. Having straight nerves 

 which form angles with each 

 other. 



ANGULO-DENTATE Angularly tooth- 

 ed, or angular and toothed. 



A'NHTDRITE. fr. gr. a, priv. ; udor, 

 water. A mineral sulphate of 

 lirne occurring in crystals which 

 contain no water. 



AN'HTDROUS. fr. gr. a, without; 

 udor, water. Without water. Ap- 

 plied to salts and certain acids 

 when destitute of water. 



ANIMAL. fr. lat. animalis a name 

 given to every animated being 

 provided with digestive organs. 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. That depart- 

 ment of natural history whioh 



