in Anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is called also conjunctiva and albuginea.

ADNATA is also used for any hair, wool, or the like, which grows upon animals or vegetables.

or Adnascentia, among gardeners, denote those offsets which, by a new germination under the earth, proceed from the lily, narcissus, hyacinth, and other flowers, and afterwards become true roots.

ADNOUN is used by some grammarians to express what we more usually call an adjective. The word is formed by way of analogy to adverb, in regard adjectives have much the same office and relation to nouns that adverbs have to verbs. Bishop Wilkins uses the word adname in another sense, viz. for what we otherwise call a preposition.