Index of English words, starting with "an"

(1) - Anatomy (n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
(2) - Anatomy (n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
(3) - Anatomy (n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.
(4) - Anatomy (n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
(5) - Anatomy (n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

(1) - Anatropous (a.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous.

(1) - Ancestor (n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
(2) - Ancestor (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
(3) - Ancestor (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.