anchor able

[Eng. anchor, -able.] Able to be used as a place of anchorage. and the sea everywhere twenty leagues from land anchor able."-Sir T. Herbert's Travels, p. 40. anch-or-a-car-pā-çě-a, s . pl . [From Gr. ἄγκυρα (angkura) = (1) an anchor, (2) a hook; and καρπός ( karpos ) = the wrist, the carpus.] Zool. The name given by Milne-Edwards to a tribe of Entomostracans, belonging to the order Lerneade. They attach themselves to their prey by means of long, arm-shaped appendages springing from the thorax, united to each other at the tip, and terminating in a horny button in the centre. It contains two families represented in Britain-the Lernæopadadæ and the Anchorelladæ.