Vocabulary : Adamantean to Adansonia

Adamantean : Of adamant; hard as adamant.
Adamantine : Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. ;; Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Adambulacral : Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
Adamic : Alt. of Adamical
Adamical : Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamite : A descendant of Adam; a human being. ;; One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
Adam's apple : See under Adam.
Adance : Dancing.
Adangle : Dangling.
Adansonia : A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
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