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defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

Of or pertaining to amnesia. "Amnesic or coördinate defects." Quian.

Causing loss of memory.

To grant amnesty to.

One who lives near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

Born or bred in, of, or near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Same as Amnion.

That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.

A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.

Alternately answering.

One of the Amoebea.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Like an amoeba in structure.

Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [Sp. Amer. & Mex.]

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.