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adam

• (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
• (n.) "Original sin
• " human frailty.

 

adam's apple

• See under Adam.

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adamant

• (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness
• a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness
• but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
• (n.) Lodestone
• magnet.

 

adamantean

• (a.) Of adamant
• hard as adamant.

 

adamantine

• (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant
• incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated
• as, adamantine bonds or chains.
• (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

 

adambulacral

• (a.) Next to the ambulacra
• as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

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