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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. Shak.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n.

Like or pertaining to the Amioidei. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.