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A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.…

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.

A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

A beetle of the genus Lamia.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

A genus formerly including the Virginia creeper.

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.