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- English Word Amphibious Definition Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
- English Word Amphibious Definition Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.
- English Word Amphibious Definition Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.
- English Word Amphibiously Definition Like an amphibious being.
- English Word Amphibium Definition An amphibian.
- English Word Amphibiums Definition of Amphibium
- English Word Amphiblastic Definition Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
- English Word Amphibole Definition A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
- English Word Amphibolic Definition Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.
- English Word Amphibolic Definition Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.
- 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.