| Adamantine |
| Like the diamond in hardness or luster. |
| Adambulacral |
| Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles
of the starfish. |
| Adamic |
| Alt. of Adamical |
| Adamical |
| Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. |
| Adamite |
| A descendant of Adam; a human being. |
| Adamite |
| One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate
the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies. |
| Adam's apple |
| See under Adam. |
| Adance |
| Dancing. |
| Adangle |
| Dangling. |
| Adansonia |
| A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are
two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and
India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of
Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous
diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled
with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used
by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
