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Antlia – Aplacental

Antlia

or ANTLIA PNEUMATICA, one of the 14 southern constellations ANTLIA, or ANTLIA PNEUMATICA, placed in the heavens by Lacaille in cOL nection with his work at the Cape of Good Hope in 1751-1752. It is situated nection with his work at the Cape of between Vela, Pyxis, Hydra, and Centaurus.

Ant Lion

the larva of an insect

Antommarchi

CARLO FRAN- CESCO (-mar'kē), an Italian physician, born in Corsica in 1780; was Professor of Anatomy at Florence when he offered himself as physician of Napoleon at St.

Helena. Napoleon left him a legacy of 100,000 francs. On his return to Europe he published the "Derniers Moments de Napoléon" (2 vols., 1823). He died in 1838.

Anura

or ANOURA, an order of reach maturity, such as the frogs and toads. terior extremity of the alimentary canal

Anzac

a name applied to Australian and New Zealand troops in the World War and made up of the first letters of their title, "Australian and New Zealard Army Corps." AOIIIA (ā-ō'nē-a), in ancient geography a name for part of Bœotia in Greece, containing Mount Helicon and the fountain Aganippe, both haunts of the muses.

Aorist

the name given to one of the tenses of the verb in some languages (as the Greek) which expresses indefinite past time.

Apartment House

a structure built to accommodate a number of families each in its own set of rooms, which form a separate dwelling with an entrance of its own. The term is chiefly used in the United States, though houses of this kind have long been built in Europe.

Apatite

a translucent but seldom transparent mineral. It passes through various shades of color, from white to yellow, green, blue, and occasionally red.

It is now largely utilized as a source of artificial phosphate manures.

Apoplexy

a serious malady, coming on so suddenly and SO violently that anso suddenly and so violently that anciently anyone affected by it was said to be attonitus (thunderstruck), or sideratus (planetstruck). The disease now described is properly called cerebral apoplexy, the cerebrum or brain being the part chiefly affected.

Apis

a bull to which divine honors

Apium

a genus of umbelliferous APLACENTAL

Aplacental

a term applied to those mammals in which the young are destitute of a placenta. The aplacental mammals comprise the monotremata and marsupialia, the two lowest orders of mammals, including the duck mole (ornithorhynchus), the porcupine anteater, kangaroo, etc.