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Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Anaërobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

bubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

ance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

Relating to the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.