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Abounding with reeds; reedy.

One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

Asbestic.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

Having asci. Loudon.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.…

Having rough leaves.

Aspermous.