Anchovy Pear
the English name of the genus grias. Grias cauliflora, the stem-flowering anchovy pear, is an elegant tree, with large leaves, which grows in the West Indies. The fruit, which of Peru, bounded N. by the department and is pickled in the same way. is eaten, tastes like that of the mango, of Libertad, S. by that of Lima, and extending from the Pacific eastward to the headwaters of the Amazon. Area, 16,562 square miles; pop. about 500,000. It is rich in minerals, and is traversed by a railway. Capital, Huaraz.
ANCHISES (än-ki'sez), the father of the Trojan hero Æneas, who carried him off on his shoulders at the burning of Troy and made him the companion of his voyage to Italy. He died at Drepanum, in Sicily.
ANCHITHERIUM (an-ke-theʼrē-um), a fossil mammal belonging to the family palæotheridæ. It has been called also hipparitherium, suggesting affinity to the horse in the neighboring family of equidæ.