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Amy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A friend.

Amyelous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wanting the spinal cord.

Amygdalaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

Amygdalate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made of almonds.

Amygdalate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

Amygdalate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.

Amygdalate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.

2. A salt amygdalic acid.

Amygdalic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

Amygdaliferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Almond-bearing.

Amygdalin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Amygdaline [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to or resembling the almond.

Amygdaline [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

Amygdalite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant; a species of spurge, with leaves resembling those of the almond.

Amygdaloid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Toad-stone; a compound rock, consisting of a basis of basalt, greenstone or some other variety of trap, imbedding nodules of various minerals, particularly calcarious spar, quartz, agate, zeolite, chlorite, etc. When the imbedded minerals are detached, it is porous, like lava.

Amygdaloid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Amygdaloidal

Amygdaloid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Amygdaloidal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to amygdaloid.

Amygdaloidal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Almond-shaped.

2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, the rock amygdaloid.

Amyl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

Amylaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to starch, or the farinaceous part of grain; resembling starch.

Amylaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.

Amylate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

Amylene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

Amylic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.

Amyline [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A farinaceous substance between gum and starch.

Amylobacter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.

Amyloid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Amyloidal

Amyloid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

2. The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

Amyloidal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.