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- English Word Anthrax Definition An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
- English Word Anthrenus Definition A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.
- English Word Anthropic Definition Alt. of Anthropical
- English Word Anthropical Definition Like or related to man; human.
- English Word Anthropidae Definition The group that includes man only.
- English Word Anthropocentric Definition Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.
- English Word Anthropogenic Definition Of or pertaining to anthropogeny.
- English Word Anthropogeny Definition The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.
- English Word Anthropoglot Definition An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.
- English Word Anthropography Definition That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.
- English Word Anthropoid Definition Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
- English Word Anthropoid Definition An anthropoid ape.
- English Word Anthropoidal Definition Anthropoid.
- English Word Anthropoidea Definition The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
- English Word Anthropolatry Definition Man worship.
- English Word Anthropolite Definition A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
- English Word Anthropologic Definition Alt. of Anthropological
- English Word Anthropological Definition Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man.
- English Word Anthropologist Definition One who is versed in anthropology.
- English Word Anthropology Definition The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
- English Word Anthropology Definition The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
- English Word Anthropology Definition That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.
- English Word Anthropomancy Definition Divination by the entrails of human being.
- English Word Anthropometric Definition Alt. of Anthropometrical
- English Word Anthropometrical Definition Pertaining to anthropometry.
- English Word Anthropometry Definition Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.
- English Word Anthropomorpha Definition The manlike, or anthropoid, apes.
- English Word Anthropomorphic Definition Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism.
- English Word Anthropomorphism Definition The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.
- English Word Anthropomorphism Definition The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.