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Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short.

Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

Same as Anticausotic.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

Opposing or destroying contagion.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

timony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

inence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.