Name Report For First Name ANTAEUS:

ANTAEUS

First name ANTAEUS's origin is Greek. ANTAEUS means "myth name (killed by hercules)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ANTAEUS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of antaeus.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with ANTAEUS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ANTAEUS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ANTAEUS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ANTAEUS AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (ntaeus) - Names That Ends with ntaeus:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (taeus) - Names That Ends with taeus:

aristaeus

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (aeus) - Names That Ends with aeus:

ancaeus eumaeus zacchaeus

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - Names That Ends with eus:

enygeus caeneus thaddeus batholomeus lorineus aconteus aegeus alcyoneus aloeus alpheus androgeus atreus briareus capaneus celeus cepheus coeus corineus epopeus erechtheus eubuleus eurystheus hyrieus idomeneus lynceus menoeceus neleus nereus obiareus odysseus oeneus orpheus peleus peneus pentheus pittheus prometheus proteus salmoneus tereus theseus toxeus tydeus tyndareus zeus asayleus inteus typhoeus phineus perseus clamedeus

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (us) - Names That Ends with us:

el-nefous cestus iasius lotus negus maccus dabbous dassous fanous abdul-quddus boulus butrus yunus dryhus bagdemagus brademagus isdernus peredurus britomartus luxovious nemausus ondrus argus ambrosius basilius bonifacius cecilius clementius egidius eugenius eustatius theodorus darius horus aldous brutus cassibellaunus guiderius ferragus marsilius senapus brus marcus seorus alemannus

NAMES RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (antaeu) - Names That Begins with antaeu:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (antae) - Names That Begins with antae:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (anta) - Names That Begins with anta:

antalka antanasia antar

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ant) - Names That Begins with ant:

antea anteros antfortas anthany anthea anthia anthonie anthony anthor anticlea antigone antilochus antinous antiope antiphates antje antoaneta antoine antoinette anton antoneo antonia antonie antonieta antonietta antonina antonio antony antor antranig antropas antti anttiri antton

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (an) - Names That Begins with an:

an-her ana anaba anabella anabelle anacelia anahid anahita anais anakausuen anakin analee analeigh analena analise anama anamari anamarie anan ananda anant ananya anarosa anassa anastagio anastasia anastasio anastasios anastasius anasuya anasztaizia anasztaz anat anata anate anati anatie anatloe anatol anatola anatoli anatolia anatolie anaxarete anaya anayi anbar anbessa anbidian anca ance ancelin ancelina ancenned anchises anci ancil anda andeana andee andena ander andera

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS:

First Names which starts with 'ant' and ends with 'eus':

First Names which starts with 'an' and ends with 'us':

anghus angus

First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 's':

abantiades abbas abderus abracomas absyrtus abydos acastus acestes achaius achates achelous achilles acis acrisius addis adkins admetus adolphus adonis adrastus aeacus aeetes aegis aegisthus aegyptus aeneas aengus aeolus aesculapius agamedes agestes aglauros agnes aidoios aigneis ailis aindreas aineislis airleas akins alahhaois albinus alcestis alcides alcinoos alcinous aldis aldus aldys aleris alexis alexys alis alliss almas alois alphonsus alvis alys alyss alyxis amaris amaryllis ambros ambrus amenophis americus ames amos amphiaraus amycus anders andreas andres anglides anis anlicnes annis annys anubis aonghas aonghus apis apophis apsaras aramis arcas archemorus ardys arelis ares argos aries ariss arliss arlys arlyss artemas

English Words Rhyming ANTAEUS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ANTAEUS AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ntaeus) - English Words That Ends with ntaeus:



Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (taeus) - English Words That Ends with taeus:


glutaeusnoun (n.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (aeus) - English Words That Ends with aeus:


scarabaeusnoun (n.) Same as Scarab.
 noun (n.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside.

uraeusnoun (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - English Words That Ends with eus:


aculeusnoun (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
 noun (n.) A sting.

alveusnoun (n.) The channel of a river.

anconeusnoun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

archeusnoun (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

caduceusnoun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

cepheusnoun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

cereusnoun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

choreusnoun (n.) Alt. of Choree

clypeusnoun (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

coccosteusnoun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

coleusnoun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

corypheusnoun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

gluteusnoun (n.) Same as Glut/us.

ileusnoun (n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.

malleusnoun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
 noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
 noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

morpheusnoun (n.) The god of dreams.

nucleusnoun (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
 noun (n.) The body or the head of a comet.
 noun (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
 noun (n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
 noun (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
 noun (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
 noun (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
 noun (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

orpheusnoun (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

paranucleusnoun (n.) Some as Nucleolus.

perseusnoun (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
 noun (n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

pileusnoun (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
 noun (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
 noun (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

pluteusnoun (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

prometheusnoun (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

pronucleusnoun (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

proteusnoun (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
 noun (n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.
 noun (n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

reflueusadjective (a.) Refluent.

trinucleusnoun (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

zeusnoun (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (antaeu) - Words That Begins with antaeu:



Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (antae) - Words That Begins with antae:


antaeanadjective (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.


Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (anta) - Words That Begins with anta:


antanoun (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

antacidnoun (n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.
 adjective (a.) Counteractive of acidity.

antacridadjective (a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

antagonismnoun (n.) Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

antagonistnoun (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.
 noun (n.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
 noun (n.) A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.
 adjective (a.) Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

antagonisticadjective (a.) Alt. of Antagonistical

antagonisticaladjective (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.

antagonozingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antagonize

antagonynoun (n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism.

antalgicnoun (n.) A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.
 adjective (a.) Alleviating pain.

antalkalinoun (n.) Alt. of Antalkaline

antalkalinenoun (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
 adjective (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies.

antambulacraladjective (a.) Away from the ambulacral region.

antanaclasisnoun (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
 noun (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

antanagogenoun (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

antaphrodisiacnoun (n.) Anything that quells the venereal appetite.
 adjective (a.) Capable of blunting the venereal appetite.

antaphroditicnoun (n.) An antaphroditic medicine.
 adjective (a.) Antaphrodisiac.
 adjective (a.) Antisyphilitic.

antapoplecticnoun (n.) A medicine used against apoplexy.
 adjective (a.) Good against apoplexy.

antarchismnoun (n.) Opposition to government in general.

antarchistnoun (n.) One who opposes all government.

antarchisticadjective (a.) Alt. of Antarchistical

antarchisticaladjective (a.) Opposed to all human government.

antarcticadjective (a.) Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

antaresnoun (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

antarthriticnoun (n.) A remedy against gout.
 adjective (a.) Counteracting or alleviating gout.

antasthmaticnoun (n.) A remedy for asthma.
 adjective (a.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ant) - Words That Begins with ant:


antnoun (n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

antenoun (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).

anteactnoun (n.) A preceding act.

antealadjective (a.) Being before, or in front.

antecedaneousadjective (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time.

antecedencenoun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
 noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

antecedencynoun (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

antecedentnoun (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
 noun (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.
 noun (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
 noun (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
 noun (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
 noun (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
 noun (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
 adjective (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
 adjective (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

antecessornoun (n.) One who goes before; a predecessor.
 noun (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor.

antechambernoun (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
 noun (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.

antechapelnoun (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.

anteciansnoun (n. pl.) See Ant/cians.

antecommunionnoun (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.

antecursornoun (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.

antedatenoun (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
 noun (n.) Anticipation.
 verb (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
 verb (v. t.) To precede in time.
 verb (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.

antedatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antedate

antediluvialadjective (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

antediluviannoun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.

antefactnoun (n.) Something done before another act.

antefixnoun (n.) An ornament fixed upon a frieze.
 noun (n.) An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.
 noun (n.) An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

anteflexionnoun (n.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.

antelopenoun (n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

antelucanadjective (a.) Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.

antemeridianadjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

antemeticnoun (n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
 adjective (a.) Tending to check vomiting.

antemosaicadjective (a.) Being before the time of Moses.

antemundaneadjective (a.) Being or occurring before the creation of the world.

antemuralnoun (n.) An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

antenataladjective (a.) Before birth.

anteniceneadjective (a.) Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

antennanoun (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

antennaladjective (a.) Belonging to the antennae.

antenniferousadjective (a.) Bearing or having antennae.

antenniformadjective (a.) Shaped like antennae.

antennulenoun (n.) A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea.

antenumbernoun (n.) A number that precedes another.

antenuptialadjective (a.) Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.

anteorbitalnoun (a. & n.) Same as Antorbital.

antepaschaladjective (a.) Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

antepastnoun (n.) A foretaste.

antependiumnoun (n.) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

antepenultnoun (n.) Alt. of Antepenultima

antepenultimanoun (n.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.

antepenultimatenoun (n.) The antepenult.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.

antephialticnoun (n.) A remedy nightmare.
 adjective (a.) Good against nightmare.

antepilepticnoun (n.) A medicine for epilepsy.
 adjective (a.) Good against epilepsy.

anteportnoun (n.) An outer port, gate, or door.

anteporticonoun (n.) An outer porch or vestibule.

antepositionnoun (n.) The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

anteprandialadjective (a.) Preceding dinner.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ANTAEUS:

English Words which starts with 'ant' and ends with 'eus':



English Words which starts with 'an' and ends with 'us':

anacanthousadjective (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes.

anacardiaceousadjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

anachronousadjective (a.) Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.

anadromousadjective (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
 adjective (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

analogousadjective (a.) Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.

anandrousadjective (a.) Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers.

anantherousadjective (a.) Destitute of anthers.

ananthousadjective (a.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

anaptychusnoun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

anarthropodousadjective (a.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

anarthrousadjective (a.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.
 adjective (a.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.

anasarcousadjective (a.) Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

anatiferousadjective (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

anatropousadjective (a.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.

ancipitousadjective (a.) Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

androgynousadjective (a.) Alt. of Androgynal

andropetalousadjective (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus.

androphagousadjective (a.) Anthropophagous.

androtomousadjective (a.) Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

anelectrotonusnoun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

anemorphilousadjective (a.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.

anencephalousadjective (a.) Without a brain; brainless.

anenterousadjective (a.) Destitute of a stomach or an intestine.

anfractuousadjective (a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.

angelusnoun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.
 noun (n.) The Angelus bell.

anginousadjective (a.) Alt. of Anginose

angiocarpousadjective (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule.
 adjective (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens.

angiomonospermousadjective (a.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

angiospermatousadjective (a.) Same as Angiospermous.

angiospermousadjective (a.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

angiosporousadjective (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi.

angiostomousadjective (a.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

anguineousadjective (a.) Snakelike.

angulousadjective (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

angustifoliousadjective (a.) Having narrow leaves.

anhelousadjective (a.) Short of breath; panting.

anhistousadjective (a.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

anhydrousadjective (a.) Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.

animousadjective (a.) Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

animusnoun (n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

anisodactylousadjective (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

anisomerousadjective (a.) Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

anisopetalousadjective (a.) Having unequal petals.

anisophyllousadjective (a.) Having unequal leaves.

anisostemonousadjective (a.) Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

anisotropousadjective (a.) Anisotropic.

annelidousadjective (a.) Of the nature of an annelid.

annotinousadjective (a.) A year old; in Yearly growths.

annoyousadjective (a.) Troublesome; annoying.

annulusnoun (n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space.
 noun (n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.
 noun (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.
 noun (n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

anodynousadjective (a.) Anodyne.

anomaloflorousadjective (a.) Having anomalous flowers.

anomalousadjective (a.) Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

anomophyllousadjective (a.) Having leaves irregularly placed.

anonaceousadjective (a.) Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

anonymousadjective (a.) Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

anourousadjective (a.) See Anurous.

anserousadjective (a.) Resembling a goose; silly; simple.

antheriferousadjective (a.) Producing anthers, as plants.
 adjective (a.) Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.

antherogenousadjective (a.) Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

anthocarpousadjective (a.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

anthophagousadjective (a.) Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

anthophorousadjective (a.) Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

anthraciferousadjective (a.) Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

anthrenusnoun (n.) A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.

anthropomorphousadjective (a.) Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant.

anthropophagousadjective (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

antibacchiusnoun (n.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).

antibillousadjective (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

anticontagiousadjective (a.) Opposing or destroying contagion.

anticousadjective (a.) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

antidromousadjective (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

antilogousadjective (a.) Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous.

antimoniousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

antipathousadjective (a.) Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.

antipetalousadjective (a.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

antisepalousadjective (a.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

antistrumousadjective (a.) Good against scrofulous disorders.

antitragusnoun (n.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

antitropousadjective (a.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.

antitypousadjective (a.) Resisting blows; hard.

antivariolousadjective (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

anurousadjective (a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

anusnoun (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

anxiousadjective (a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
 adjective (a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.
 adjective (a.) Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

androcephalousadjective (a.) Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

androdioeciousadjective (a.) Alt. of -diecious

ankusnoun (n.) An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook.

anthophilousadjective (a.) Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.