Amblypterus (amblipterus)

[NL., πτέρυξ, wing, fin), E. feather.] 1. A genus of ganoid fishes with heterocercal tail. The species are found only in a fo il state, and are characteristic of the coal formation. Aga iz, 1833.-2. A genus of birds, founded by Gould in 1837, but preoccupied in ichthyology by the preceding genus, and therefore not in use. It was based upon a remarkable South American goatsucker, of the fam bian of the family Amblystomida. Amblystomidæ (am-blis-tom'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., IMG:content-0603.png:[subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][subsumed] Northern Tribune of the Church of S. Maria in Ara Cæli, Rome. and sermons were preached. It was often an oblong inclosure with steps at both ends, and was generally richly decorated. It was very common to place two ambos in a church, from one of which was read the gospel, and from the other the epistle. A tall ornamented pillar for holding the paschal candle is sometimes a ociated with the ambo. From these walls projected ambones , or pulpits with desks, also of marble, ascended by steps. Encyc. Brit ., III. 415. 2. In an at., a circumferential fibrocartilage; a fibro cartilaginous ring surrounding an articular cavity, as the glenoid fo a of the scapula and the cotyloid fo a of the innominate bone. Also written ambon. ambodextert (am-bo-deks'ter), a. and n. Same as ambidexter. ambolic (am-bol'ik), a. [ ambrotype