comb. form of Gr. ἄνομ-ος without law, f. ἀ priv. + νόμος law; first element in various compounds, chiefly modern, as:—
Anomobranchiate, a. and sb. Zool. [Gr. βράγχια gills], adj. having gills of irregular structure, sb. a crustacean having such gills. Anomocarpous, a. Bot. [Gr. καρπός fruit], bearing unusual fruit. Anomodont, a. and sb. Zool. [Gr. ὀδοντ- tooth], having irregular or no teeth, applied to a genus of fossil reptiles. Anomophyllous, a. Bot. [Gr. φύλλον leaf], having leaves irregularly placed. Anomorhomboid, Cryst. [Gr. ῥομβο-ειδής rhombus shaped], ‘a name given to certain varieties of crystalline spars, of no determinate regular external form, but always fracturing into irregular rhomboids’ (Craig). Anomorhomboidal, a. Cryst., consisting of irregular rhomboids.
1852. Dana, Crust., I. 8. In the Anomobranchiates the feet are in part two-branched or bifid.
1880. Syd. Soc. Lex., Anomocarpous.
1881. Athenæum, 19 March, 401/1. Description of Parts of the Skeleton of an Anomodont Reptile.
1879. Le Conte, Elem. Geol., 410. The beaked Saurians, also called Anomodonts.
1880. Syd. Soc. Lex., Anomophyllous.
[1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Anomorhomboidia … pellucid crystalline spars … composed of plates running both horizontally and perpendicularly thro’ the masses…. There are five known species.]
1847. Craig, Anomorhomboidal.
