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A athamanticum
Male Male, a. [F. m[^a]le, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine, dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. Masculine, Marry, v. t.] 1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs. 2. (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them. 3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage. 4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir. 5. (Mech.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. Male berry (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry. Male fern (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female. Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female. Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw. Male thread, the thread of a male screw.
Athamaunt
Athamaunt Ath"a*maunt, n. Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. --Chaucer.
Meum Athamanticum
Spicknel Spick"nel, n. [Contr. from spike nail a large, long nail; -- so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary leaves.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort. [Written also spignel.]

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- In Gr**** mythology, Athamas (/ˈæθəməs/; Ancient Gr****: Ἀθάμας, romanized: Athámas) was a Boeotian king. Athamas was formerly a Thessalian prince and the...
- Polyura athamas, the common nawab, is a species of fast-flying canopy butterfly found in tropical Asia. It belongs to the Charaxinae (rajahs and nawabs)...
- ram that rescued Phrixus and ****e, the children of the Boeotian king Athamas and provided the Golden Fleece. Beyond the ****ociation to the planet Mars...
- maenad. (Kerenyi 1976, p. 246) Ino was the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, mother of Learchus and Melicertes and stepmother of Phrixus and ****e...
- Athamas (Ancient Gr****: Ἀθάμας, fl. 5th century BCE) of Posidonia was a Pythagorean philosopher, cited by the theologian and philosopher Clement of Alexandria...
- Palaemon or Palaimon (Παλαίμων), was a Boeotian prince as the son of King Athamas and Ino, daughter of King Cadmus of Thebes. He was the brother of Learchus...
- who mourn. He accompanied Tisiphone when Hera sent her to madden Ino and Athamas. "Penthus". Encyclopedia Mythica. 3 March 1997. Ovid,Metamorphoses v t...
- also the name of the Oceanid who married Athamas, and had twins, a son, Phrixus, and a daughter, ****e. Athamas then divorced her for Ino, who hatched a...
- and Fretum ****esponti****. It was so called from ****e, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here in the mythology of the Golden Fleece. As a maritime...
- Athamas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius ****rd-Cambridge in 1877. The name is derived from Athamas, the king of Orchomenus...