Adam's Apple :: Adam's apple () See under Adam.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

Adamantean :: Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains..

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Adambulacral :: Adambulacral (a.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish..

Adamic :: Adamic (a.) Alt. of Adamica.

Adamical :: Adamical (a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him..

Adamite :: Adamite (n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.

Adamite :: Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies..

Adance :: Adance (adv.) Dancing.

Adangle :: Adangle (adv.) Dangling.

Adansonia :: Adansonia (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth..

Adapt :: Adapt (a.) Fitted; suited.

Adapt :: Adapt (v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for..

Adaptability :: Adaptability (n.) Alt. of Adaptablenes.

Adaptable :: Adaptable (a.) Capable of being adapted.

Adaptableness :: Adaptableness (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.

Adaptation :: Adaptation (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness..

Adaptation :: Adaptation (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Adaptative :: Adaptative (a.) Adaptive.

Adapted :: Adapted (imp. & p. p.) of Adap.

Adaptedness :: Adaptedness (n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

Adapter :: Adapter (n.) One who adapts.

Adapter :: Adapter (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.

Adapting :: Adapting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adap.

Adaption :: Adaption (n.) Adaptation.

Adaptive :: Adaptive (a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting..

Adaptiveness :: Adaptiveness (n.) The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

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