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Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.] Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

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

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. Arabic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. -- Gum arabic. See under Gum.

Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl.

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

Of or pertaining to the Arachnida.

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid.

Of or pertaining to arachnology.

Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.