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Relating to both parents. [R.]

Sexual propagation. [R.]

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. [Written also amphigouri.]

Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptoca…

One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

One of the Amphipoda.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

rd, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.

Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.