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Amphictyonies
pl.
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of Amphictyony
Amphictyony
n.
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A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.
Amphid
n.
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A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.
Amphidisc
n.
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A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.
Amphidromical
a.
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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.
Amphigamous
a.
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Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
Amphigean
a.
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Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Amphigen
n.
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An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
Amphigene
n.
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Leucite.
Amphigenesis
n.
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Sexual generation; amphigony.
Amphigenous
a.
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Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
Amphigonic
a.
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Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.
Amphigonous
a.
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Relating to both parents.
Amphigony
n.
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Sexual propagation.
Amphigoric
a.
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Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.
Amphigory
n.
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A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
Amphilogism
n.
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Alt. of Amphilogy
Amphilogy
n.
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Ambiguity of speech; equivocation.
Amphimacer
n.
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A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.
Amphineura
n. pl.
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A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
Amphioxus
n.
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A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.
Amphipneust
n.
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One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
Amphipod
n.
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One of the Amphipoda.
Amphipod
a.
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Alt. of Amphipodan
Amphipodan
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Amphipoda
n. pl.
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A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.
Amphipodous
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
Amphiprostyle
a.
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Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.
Amphiprostyle
n.
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An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
Amphirhina
n. pl.
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A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.