American (amerikan)

and n. [=F. América in = Sp. Pg. It. America no = D. Ameri kaan, n., Amerikaansch, a.,=G. Amerikaner, n., Amerikanisch, a., = Dan. Amerikaner, n., Ameri kansk, a., = Sw. Amerikan, n., Amerikansk, a., pp. American i zed, ppr. American i zing. ppr. American i zing. [ It is notorious that, in the United States, the descendants of the immigrant Irish lose their Celtic aspect, and become American i zed . H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 82. The line of argument has been adopted by the right honourable gentleman opposite with regard to what he terms american i zing the institutions of the country. Gladstone. αμετάβολος, unchangeable: see ametabolous.] In zoöl., insects which do not undergo metamorphosis. In Macleay's system of cla ification, a term borrowed from W. E. Leach to designate a subcla of In sect a by which the myriapodous, thysanurous, and anoplurous "insects" should be collectively contrasted with the true insects, which undergo metamorphosis. Myriapods being excluded from the cla Insect a, and lice being located with insects that are not thoroughly ametabolous, Ametabola is by some authors restricted to the collembolous and thysanurous insects. The term is correlated with Hem i meta bola and with Metabola. M'Leay has formed them [Myriapod a] into two orders, Chilopod a and Chilognatha, raising them, together with the two other orders, Thysanura and Anoplura (or Paras it a, Latr.), and certain annulated vermes, into a distinct cla , to which he applied the name of Ametabola , which Leach had proposed only for the spring-tailed insects and lice. J.O. West wood, in Cuvier's Règne Animal (trans.), [1849, p. 483.