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Of the nature of an albuminoid.

Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.

Of or pertaining to the allantois.

An almond.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

A salt amygdalic acid.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

Almond-bearing.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

ic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

Anthropoid.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Without feet; footless.

Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.