Ameba – Anchovy
Ameba
a term applied to a protozoön which perpetually changes its form. It is classed under the rhizopoda. It is among the simplest living beings known, and might be described almost as an animated mass of perfectly transparent moving matter. The amœba diffluens is sometimes called, from its incessant changes of form, the proteus.
Amphioxus
a genus of fishes of and Doris. Neptune wished to make her an organization SO humble, that the first specimen discovered was believed by Pallas to be a slug, and was described by him as the limax lanceolatus. It is now called amphioxus lanceolatus.
Amphipod
in zoölogy, an animal belonging to the crustaceous order am- AMPHITHEATER, a double theater. phipoda. an amphi-
Amphora
a two-handled vessel, skeletons or ashes of the dead. generally made of clay, and used for holding wine, oil, honey, or even the It is also a liquid measure, containing part which, by its injured or diseased AMPUTATION, the cutting off of a Greek amphoreus held nearly nine. The the safety of the whole body. The amknown.
Apricots
LARGELY GROWN IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON, AND NEW YORK STATE Photo, Gifford Studio AN APPLE ORCHARD IN BLOSSOM IN THE HOOD RIVER VALLEY, OREGON, WITH MT. HOOD IN THE DISTANCE Underwood & Underwood THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES AMSTERDAM
Amsterdam
a city of Montgomery co., N. Y.; on the Mohawk river and the New York Central and Hudson river and the West Shore railroads: 33 miles N.
W. of Albany. It is an agricultural region, but is noted for its manufactures, especially of knit goods, carpets, steel springs, and paper, Pop. (1910) 31,267; (1920) 33,524.
Amsterdam
UNIVERSITY OF, an institution for higher learning in the city of Amsterdam, Holland, founded in 1632. It was reorganized in 1867 and ten years later was made the Royal University. It has faculties of law, medicine, mathematics, science, arts, and theology, and about 1,100 students.
Amulet
anything hung around the cine, mathematics, science, arts, and or otherwise attached to the person, as theology, and about 1,100 students. ness, witchcraft, or other evils, amulets were common in the ancient world, and they are so yet in nations where ignorance prevails.
Anableps
a genus of abdominal fishes, of the order malacopterygii abdominales, belonging to the family cyprinidæ (carps). Their eyes greatly project, and, moreover, seem, but only seem, as if divided into two; hence the species is called anableps tetrophthalmus. It is found in the rivers of Guiana.
Anaheim
city of California, in Orange co., about 27 miles S. E. of Los Angeles. It is on the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railroads. The center of an important fruitgrowing country, it has also important trade interests in oil, oranges, farm and dairy products. Pop. (1910) 2,628; (1920) 5,526.
Anapa
an important seaport and fortified town in Russian Circassia, on the Black Sea, a station of the Russian navy.
Anchovy
a fish, the engraulis encrasicolus of Fleming; the engraulis vulgaris of Cuvier. It belongs to the herring family. In general, its length is from 4 to 5 inches. Shoals of anchovies annually enter the Mediterranean, and various fisheries exist along its northern shores, the most celebrated being at Gorgona, a small island W. of Leghorn.