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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



ANIMA'LITT. fr. fr. animalite. The 

 peculiar vital property or charac- 

 ter which belongs to and distin- 

 guishes animals. 



ANIMA'LIA. Lat. Animals. 



ANIMA'LCULE. fr. lat. animalculum, 

 a diminutive animal. 



ANIMA'LCULA. Plur. of animalcu- 

 lum : animals that are only per- 

 ceptible by means of the micro- 

 scope. 



ANISO'BRYOUS. fr. gr. anisos, une- 

 qual ; bruo, to grow. That which 

 grows unequally. 



ANISOSTE'MONOUS. fr. gr. anisos, 

 unequal ; stemon, a stamen. Ap- 

 plied to plants in which the num- 

 ber of stamens does not corre- 

 spond with the number, or any 

 power of the number, of the pe- 

 tals, or of the sepals. 



ANNEL'LIDAN. An animal of the 

 class annel'lida. A worm. 



ANNELLIDES A class of animals 



without vertebrae. 



A'NNUAL. fr. lat. annus, a year. 

 Yearly. A plant which rises from 

 the seed, reaches perfection and 

 perishes within a year. 



AN'NULAR In form of a ring. 



ANNULA'RIA. fr. lat. annulus, ring. 

 Generic name of a fossil plant, 

 (p. 41, Book viii.) 



ANNULA'TED. fr. lat. annulus,^. ring; 

 marked in rings. 



ANNULA'TIONS. Rings or circles. 



ANNULO'SA. fr. lat. annulus, a ring. 

 Name given by Macleay to Cu- 

 vier's division of Articulata. 



AN'NULUS. Plur. annuli. Lat. A 

 ring. 



ANO'BIUM. fr. gr. and, above, up- 

 wards; baino, I ascend. Generic 

 name of certain beetles. 



ANODO'NTA. fr.gr. a, without; odous, 

 odontos, tooth. Systematic name 

 ^f a kind of mussel, (p. 149, 

 Book viii.) 



ANODO'NT;E. Plur. of Anodonta. 



ANO'LIS A kind of saurian, called 

 vnoli, in the Antilles. 



ANO'LIUS. Lat. Generic name of 

 the Anolis. 



ANOMALY. fr. gr. a, priv. ; omalos, 

 equal. Irregularity; deviation 

 from the common rule.' 



ANO'MALOUS. Unequal, irregular. 



ANO'MIA. fr. gr. a, priv.; nomos, 

 law. Systematic name of certain 

 mollusks. (p. 74, Book v.) 



ANO'MIA. Plur. of Anomia. 



ANOPLOTHE'RITJM. fr. gr. a, with- 

 out; oplon, arm, or anoplos, un- 

 armed-, therion, beast. An ex- 

 tinct fossil quadruped, (p. 82, 

 Book viii.) 



ANOMOC'RA. fr. gr. anomos, irregu- 

 lar ; oura, tail. A division of 

 crusta'ceans. 



ANO'RMAL. Irregular ; abnormal. 



ANOU'RA. fr. gr. a, or an, priv.; 

 cmra, tail. Without a tail. Name 

 of a family of batrachians. 



ANSER. Lat. A goose. 



ANTEN'NA. Lat. A yard-arm. A 

 tubular, jointed, filiform organ, 

 placed on the head of insects, and 

 some other animals. A feeler. 



AXTEN'NJE. Plur. of antenna. 



ANTE-OPER'CULUM. A part of the 

 gill-cover, or operculum of fishes, 

 which is before the operculum 

 proper, (p. 79, Book iv.) 



ANTEPEC'TUS. fr. lat. ante, before ; 

 pectus, the breast. The under sur- 

 face of the first ring of the thorax 

 in insects. 



ANTEPENULTIMATE. fr. lat. ante, be- 

 fore ; pene, almost; ultimus* the 

 last. That which is immediately 

 before the next to the last; or, 

 that which is immediately before 

 the penultimate. 



ANTERIOR. Before. The anterior 

 valve of a shell is that in which 

 the ligament is not placed. 



ANTESTER'NVM. fr. lat. ante, be- 

 fore ; sternum, the breast-bone. 

 The fore part of the middle line 

 of the breast-plate ; the centre of 

 the antepectus. 



A'NTHER. fr. gr. anthera, a flowery 

 herb. That part of a plant which 



