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- English Word Amphigoric Definition Nonsensical; absurd; pertaining to an amphigory.
- English Word Amphigory Definition A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
- English Word Amphilogism Definition Alt. of Amphilogy
- English Word Amphilogy Definition Ambiguity of speech; equivocation.
- English Word Amphimacer Definition A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.
- English Word Amphineura Definition A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
- English Word Amphioxus Definition 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.
- English Word Amphipneust Definition One of a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
- English Word Amphipod Definition One of the Amphipoda.
- English Word Amphipod Definition Alt. of Amphipodan
- English Word Amphipoda Definition 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.
- English Word Amphipodan Definition Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
- English Word Amphipodous Definition Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.
- English Word Amphiprostyle Definition Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.
- English Word Amphiprostyle Definition An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
- English Word Amphirhina Definition A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.
- English Word Amphisbaena Definition A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
- English Word Amphisbaena Definition 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.
- English Word Amphisbaenoid Definition Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbaena.
- English Word Amphiscians Definition The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
- English Word Amphiscii Definition Alt. of Amphiscians
- English Word Amphistomous Definition Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
- English Word Amphistylic Definition Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.
- English Word Amphitheater Definition Alt. of Amphitheatre
- English Word Amphitheatral Definition Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
- English Word Amphitheatre Definition An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
- English Word Amphitheatre Definition Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
- English Word Amphitheatric Definition Alt. of Amphitheatrical
- English Word Amphitheatrical Definition Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
- English Word Amphitheatrically Definition In the form or manner of an amphitheater.