Part 433

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An androgynous plant.</def>

<i>Whewell.</i>

<h1>Androgynous, Androgynal</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw><hw>An*drog"y*nous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>An*drog"y*nal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>androgynus</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/, <?/, man + <?/ woman: cf. F. <ets>androgyne</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.</def>

<i>Owen.</i>

<blockquote>The truth is, a great mind must be <b>androgynous</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.</def>

<h1>Androgyny, Androgynism</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw><hw>An*drog"y*ny</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>An*drog"y*nism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.</def>

<h1>Android, Androides</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw><hw>An"droid</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>An*droi"des</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ of man's form; <?/, <?/, man + <?/ form.]</ety> <def>A machine or automaton in the form of a human being.</def>

<h1>Android</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An"droid</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Resembling a man.</def>

<h1>Andromeda</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An*drom"e*da</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.</def>

<h1>Andron</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An"dron</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>andron</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/, <?/, man.]</ety> <fld>(Gr. & Rom. Arch.)</fld> <def>The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.</def>

<h1>Andropetalous</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An`dro*pet"al*ous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, man + <?/ leaf.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus.</def>

<i>Brande.</i>

<h1>Androphagi</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An*droph"a*gi</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/; <?/, <?/, man + <?/ to eat.]</ety> <def>Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Androphagous</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An*droph"a*gous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Anthropophagous.</def>

<h1>Androphore</h1> <Xpage=55>

<hw>An"dro*phore</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, man + <?/ to bear.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A support or column on which stamens are raised.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>