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  • English Word Arabin Definition A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.
  • English Word Arabin Definition Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.
  • English Word Arabinose Definition A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.
  • English Word Arabism Definition An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.
  • English Word Arabist Definition One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.
  • English Word Arable Definition Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.
  • English Word Arable Definition Arable land; plow land.
  • English Word Araby Definition The country of Arabia.
  • English Word Aracanese Definition Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah.
  • English Word Aracanese Definition A native or natives of Aracan.
  • English Word Aracari Definition A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.
  • English Word Arace Definition To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
  • English Word Araceous Definition Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.
  • English Word Arachnid Definition An arachnidan.
  • English Word Arachnida Definition One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Arachnidan Definition One of the Arachnida.
  • English Word Arachnidial Definition Of or pertaining to the Arachnida.
  • English Word Arachnidial Definition Pertaining to the arachnidium.
  • English Word Arachnidium Definition The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.
  • English Word Arachnitis Definition Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.
  • English Word Arachnoid Definition Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
  • English Word Arachnoid Definition Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
  • English Word Arachnoid Definition Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
  • English Word Arachnoid Definition The arachnoid membrane.
  • English Word Arachnoid Definition One of the Arachnoidea.
  • English Word Arachnoidal Definition Pertaining to the arachnoid membrane; arachnoid.
  • English Word Arachnoidea Definition Same as Arachnida.
  • English Word Arachnological Definition Of or pertaining to arachnology.
  • English Word Arachnologist Definition One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.
  • English Word Arachnology Definition The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida.