Anabatidæl (anabatide)

pl. [NL., Gray to also so used. Anabatidæ (an-a-bat'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., irreg. Anabas + -ida .] "In ichth . , same as Anabantid a . ferentiated from forms in -an, as in humane, urbane, etc., beside human, urban, etc.] A suffix of Latin origin, forming adjectives which are or may be also used as nouns. It expre es various adjective relations, being used especially with proper names to form local or patrial adjectives or nouns, as Roman, Italian, Grecian, American, Fijian, etc.; terms indicating party, sect, or system, as Arian, Luther an, Wesley an, Mohammedan, Copernican, Linnean, etc., so in Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Unitarian, etc.; and in zoölogy, to form adjectives and nouns from names of cla es or orders, as mammalian, reptilian, etc. As an English formative it is confined chiefly to words which may be made to a ume a Latin type, having here also the euphonic variant -ian, especially in proper adjectives, as in Dar winian, Johnson i an, etc. anal (an'a or a'nä), n. pl. [ But, all his vast heart sherris-warm'd, He flash'd his random speeches; Ere days, that deal in ana , swarm'd His literary leeches. Tennyson, Will Waterproof. ana2. [ of n. See tilde.