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Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

Resembling an anther.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Shaped like an ear of grain.

An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma. Wiseman.

The science or a treatise on the atmosphere.

See Cony.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

Mad for freedom. [R.]

An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

A half of a spheroid.

Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.

A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.

Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n.

One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.