apocryphal (apokrifal)

and n. [ The apocryphal relics of saints and apostles which then burdened shrines of Greek churches. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 185. apodictic thurians, containing the families Synaptidæ and Mol padiidæ, the last of which constitutes his suborder Pneu monophora. (g) In Macleay's system of cla ification, a division of Annelid a, including those which have no feet or distinct head: opposed to Polypod a. It is divided into three groups, the Lumbricina, Nemertina, and Hirudinea, or the earthworms, nemerteans, and leeches. (h) An order of Amphibia, same as Gym no phi on a or Ophiomorph a, constituted by the family Cæciliidæ alone. (i) A group of degraded parasitic cirripeds, having a vermiform body, a suctorial mouth, no thoracic or abdominal limbs (and consequently no cirri), and a rudimentary peduncle sented by two separate threads bearing the characteristic antenniform organs. There is but one genus, Proteole pas (which see). apodal (ap'o-dal), a. [ κρήνη, springs: used only in the following phrase. -Apocrenic acid, an uncrystallizable brown gummy acid, soluble in water, existing in certain mineral springs, and in the vegetable mold of soil together with crenic acid, from which it is formed by oxidation.