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Acheilia

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• Acheiria

  acheiria acheiria a·chei·ri·a or a·chi·ri·a (ə-kī’rē-ə) n. Congenital absence of the hands. A condition sometimes occurring in hysteria in which there is a loss of the sense of possession of one or both hands.

• Acheiropody

  acheiropody acheiropody a·chei·rop·o·dy or a·chi·rop·o·dy (ə-kī-rŏp’ə-dē) n. Congenital absence of the hands and the feet.

• Achelous

  noun (classical myth) a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns Historical Examples The other stranger was achelous, god of the Calydonian River. Good Stories For Great Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott Behold me, the god achelous, the powerful […]

• Achene

  any small, dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit. Historical Examples achene obtusely triangular, partly 3-celled, enclosed in the indurated calyx. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Asa Gray Name from , a bug, and , resemblance; from the form of the achene. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States […]

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