Adam and Eve

( Bot.) The vulgar name of the A plectrum Hyemale, ord. Orchid aceæ. It is a fine plant, found in woods of Canada and Ohio. It gives, in May, brownish-purple, erect flowers, in a terminal raceme. Ad'amant, n. [Lat. adam as, insuperable.] A stone, imagined by poets, of impenetrable hardne . "Satan came tow'ring, armed in adamant and gold." - Milton . The diamond, and also the loadstone. (Obs.) Adamantæʼa. ( Myth .) Jupiter's nurse in Crete. She suspended the infant god to a tree, that he might be found neither on the earth, the sea, nor in heaven. To drown his cries, she had cymbals sounded and drums beaten around the tree.