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neral fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

owing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

tation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

sembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- calle…

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]

the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

n, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

or the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.