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Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

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.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Hook-shaped.

Elbowlike; anconal.

Resembling a man.

A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.

Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current.

An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

Of or pertaining to the Annelida. -- n.

A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

Of the nature of an annelid.

An animal resembling an annelid.

Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.