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Anostraca
- noun - small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps
Anoxaemia
- - A former term used to refer to an abnormal condition due to deficient oxygenation of the arterial blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness; now the term is replaced by the term hypoxemia.
Antheraea
- noun - large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality
Antigonia
- noun - a genus of fish in the family Caproidae
Apneumona
- - An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.
Apocrypha
- noun - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
Apothecia
- noun - a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
Appaloosa
- noun - a hardy breed of saddle horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump
Aquatinta
- - A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.
Aquilegia
- noun - a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains