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e leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens. Gray.

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

t or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any…

A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.

nd. -- n. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon in the Vocabulary.

The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

ular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular poi…

See Angostura bark.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food. Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism. -- Animal electricity, the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or se…

An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.

aturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.