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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.

A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

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

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

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

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

s 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.

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

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the In…

The calculation and explanation of a nativity. [Obs.] Bailey.

class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line jo…