Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Anadrom :: Anadrom (n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

Andromeda :: Andromeda (n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda..

Andromeda :: Andromeda (n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water..

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

Catadrome :: Catadrome (n.) A race course.

Catadrome :: Catadrome (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous..

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel..

Catanadromous :: Catanadromous (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous..

Chondroma :: Chondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

Chondromata :: Chondromata (pl. ) of Chondrom.

Chondrometer :: Chondrometer (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain.

Cylindrometric :: Cylindrometric (a.) Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.

Dendrometer :: Dendrometer (n.) An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.

Diadrom :: Diadrom (n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum..

Dromaeognathous :: Dromaeognathous (a.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

Dromatherium :: Dromatherium (n.) A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America..

Drome :: Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher..

Dromedaries :: Dromedaries (pl. ) of Dromedar.

Dromedary :: Dromedary (n.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps..

Dromon :: Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel..

Dromond :: Dromond () Alt. of Dromo.

Enchondroma :: Enchondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

Gynandromorph :: Gynandromorph (n.) An animal affected with gynandromorphism,.

Gynandromorphism :: Gynandromorphism (n.) An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female..

Gynandromorphous :: Gynandromorphous (a.) Affected, with gynandromorphism..

Haemadrometer :: Haemadrometer (n.) Alt. of Haemadremomete.

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