ARTIZOOS

(Lat.), adj. A®rt-i2-zo/o?s. Gr., dprigwos. 1. Barely alive (said of infants that are born in a state of impaired vitality). (A, 322.] 2. Recently born. [A, 322.] ARTOCARPACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. ASrt’’o-ka’rp-a(a8)’se%(ke?)-. For deriv., see ARTOCARPUS. Fr., artocarpées, artocarpacées. Ger., Artokarpaceen, Brodfruchtbäume. The artocarpads. Of Lindley and others, an order of apetalous phanerogams comprising trées and shrubs with milky opalescent juice, usually acrid and poisonous, sometimes nutritious and wholesome; leaves usually alternate, convolute iu the bud, and provided with large deciduous stipules which are usually amplexicaul; flowers collected in dense heads or aments; ovaries with a single ovule, which is ascending or, if descending, is nearly or quite orthotropal, the micropyle being always superior; and large fleshy fruit formed by the aggregation of the ovaries. This order, which comprises Artocarpus, Ficus, Antiar is, Cecropia, and other genera, is by man regarded as a tribe of the Ulmaceæ related to the Morea, or is merged with the latter, from which it is chiefly distinguished by ie ete of its leaves and stipules and by its erect stamens. , 34, 121.