Ape
a common name of a number of quadrumanous animals inhabiting the Old World (Asia and the Asiatic islands, and Africa). and including a variety of species. The family includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, orang-outang, etc., and has been divided into three genera, troglodytes, simia, and hylobates. The highest and most man-like monkeys, including gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, gibbon, and several other species, are called Anthropoid Apes.
They are all arboreal, and inhabit Africa, southeastern Asia, and the Malay Archi- APOPHYGE APOPHYGE (ap-of'e-ge or ap'ō-fig), in architecture, the small curve at the top of a column by which its shaft joins its capital. It is sometimes called the spring of the column . Originally it was the ring which bound the extremities of wooden pillars to keep them from splitting, imitated in stone-work. The same name is given to the corresponding concavity connecting the bottom of a pillar with the fillet at its base.
APOPHYLLITE (ap-of'il-it), a tetragonal mineral, called also ichthyophthalmineral, called also ichthyophthalmite, classed by Dana as the type mite, classed by Dana as the type of an apophylite group of unisilicates. Color, white or grayish; occasionally with red or flesh-red tint. It is generally transparent; is brittle, and has feeble double refraction. It is "hydrated calceopotassic silicate." It occurs chiefly in amygdaloid, though occasionally in granite and gneiss. It is found at Ratho , near Edinburgh, and in Fife, Dumbarton and Inverness-shires.
It occurs in Europe , in India, in Siberia, in America, in Australia and elsewhere.