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- English Word Amphibolies Definition of Amphiboly
- English Word Amphibological Definition Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous.
- English Word Amphibologies Definition of Amphibology
- English Word Amphibology Definition A 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.
- English Word Amphibolous Definition Ambiguous; doubtful.
- English Word Amphibolous Definition Capable of two meanings.
- English Word Amphiboly Definition Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
- English Word Amphibrach Definition A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
- English Word Amphicarpic Definition Alt. of Amphicarpous
- English Word Amphicarpous Definition Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
- English Word Amphichroic Definition Exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
- English Word Amphicoelian Definition Alt. of Amphicoelous
- English Word Amphicoelous Definition Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.
- English Word Amphicome Definition A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.
- English Word Amphictyonic Definition Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.
- English Word Amphictyonies Definition of Amphictyony
- English Word Amphictyons Definition Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
- English Word Amphictyony Definition 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.
- English Word Amphid Definition 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.
- English Word Amphidisc Definition A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.
- English Word Amphidromical Definition 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.
- English Word Amphigamous Definition Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.
- English Word Amphigean Definition Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
- English Word Amphigen Definition An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
- English Word Amphigene Definition Leucite.
- English Word Amphigenesis Definition Sexual generation; amphigony.
- English Word Amphigenous Definition Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
- English Word Amphigonic Definition Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.
- English Word Amphigonous Definition Relating to both parents.
- English Word Amphigony Definition Sexual propagation.