anomo-comb. form

comb. form of Greek ἄνομ-ος without law, < ἀ priv. + νόμος law; first element in various compounds, chiefly modern, as:— Zool. [Greek βράγχια gills] , adj. having gills of irregular structure, n. a crustacean having such gills. Bot. [Greek καρπός fruit] , bearing unusual fruit. Zool. [Greek ὀδοντ- tooth] , having irregular or no teeth, applied to a genus of fossil reptiles. Bot. [Greek ϕύλλον leaf] , having leaves irregularly placed. Crystallogr. [Greek 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). Crystallogr., consisting of irregular rhomboids.