Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AD-NA'TA
AD-NA'TA, n. [L. ad and natus, grown, from nascor, to grow.]
- In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is also called albuginea, and is sometimes confounded with the conjunctiva. It lies between the sclerotica and the conjunctiva.
- Such parts of animal or vegetable bodies, as are usual and natural, as the hair, wool, horns; or accidental, as fungus, misletoe, and excrescences.
- Offsets of plants, germinating under ground, as from the lily, narcissus, and hyacinth. – Quincy. Encyc.
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