Anthurium (anthuʻrium)

[NL., or often richly colored spathe. Its species are extensively cultivated as ornamental plants in greenhouses. Anthus (an'thus), n. [L., The anthropophagy of Diomedes his horses. antiaditis There are numerous species, much resembling one another, all being small, brown, spotted and streaked birds, with slender bill and lengthened hind claw, and the point of the wing formed, in the typical species, by the first four primaries. They are of terrestrial habits, in this and some other respects resembling larks. The best-known Euro pean species are A. pratensis, the meadow-pipit; A. ar IMG:content-0866.png:[graphic][subsumed][merged small] IMG:content-0867.png:[blocks in formation]