{ ||An`a*can"thi*ni (&?;), An"a*canths (&?;), } n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + &?; thorny, fr. &?; thorn.] (Zoöl.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.
An`a*can"thous (&?;), a. Spineless, as certain fishes.
An`a*car"di*a"ceous (&?;), a. (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.
An`a*car"dic (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.
||An`a*car"di*um (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; similar to + &?; heart; -- the fruit of this plant being thought to resemble the heart of a bird.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.
An`a*ca*thar"tic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to cleanse upward, i. e., by vomiting; &?; + &?;. See Cathartic.] (Med.) Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n. An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.
||An*ach"a*ris (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; up + &?; grace.] (Bot.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
An*ach"o*ret (&?;), n. An*ach`o*ret"ic*al (&?;), a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]
An*ach"o*rism (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; + &?; place.] An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]
An`a*chron"ic (&?;), An`a*chron"ic*al (&?;), a. Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
An*ach"ro*nism (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; &?; + &?; time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
An*ach`ro*nis"tic (&?;), a. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.
An*ach"ro*nize (&?;), v. t. [Gr. &?;.] To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.
An*ach"ro*nous (&?;), a. Containing an anachronism; anachronistic. -- An*ach"ro*nous*ly, adv.
An`a*clas"tic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; to bend back and break; to reflect (light); &?; + &?; to break.] 1. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.