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A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

g only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceæ, including the soursop.

Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

an was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

Producing anthers, as plants.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.

y symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

le manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.