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Of or pertaining to ammonia.

Containing fossil ammonites.

Of or pertaining to amnesia. "Amnesic or coördinate defects." Quian.

Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.

Of or pertaining to the Amorphozoa.

Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Pertaining to amphibiology.

Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. W. Smith.

sp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

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

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.