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- English Word Amygdalate Definition A salt amygdalic acid.
- English Word Amygdalic Definition Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.
- English Word Amygdaliferous Definition Almond-bearing.
- English Word Amygdalin Definition A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
- English Word Amygdaline Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.
- English Word Amygdaloid Definition A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
- English Word Amygdaloid Definition Alt. of Amygdaloidal
- English Word Amygdaloidal Definition Almond-shaped.
- English Word Amygdaloidal Definition Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.
- English Word Amyl Definition A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
- English Word Amylaceous Definition Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
- English Word Amylate Definition A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
- English Word Amylene Definition One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.
- English Word Amylic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.
- English Word Amylobacter Definition A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
- English Word Amyloid Definition Alt. of Amyloidal
- English Word Amyloid Definition A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.
- English Word Amyloid Definition The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.
- English Word Amyloidal Definition Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.
- English Word Amylolytic Definition Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.
- English Word Amylose Definition One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.
- English Word Amyous Definition Wanting in muscle; without flesh.
- English Word Amyss Definition Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
- English Word Amzel Definition The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
- English Word An Definition This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
- English Word An Definition If; -- a word used by old English authors.
- English Word An 't Definition An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
- English Word An't Definition A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
- English Word Ana Definition Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
- English Word Ana- Definition A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.