Acronym meanings of APL. Acronym & meanings of APL

An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

Puttyroot

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

Aplanatism

Freedom from spherical aberration.

Aplastic

Not plastic or easily molded.

Aplustre

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

Aplomb

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

Aplotomy

Simple incision.

Aplacophora

n. pl.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates.

Aplacentata

n. pl.

Mammals which have no placenta.

Aplacental

Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

Aplysia

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

Aplanatic

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.

Croaker

An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.

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