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Anthemis

Anthemis is a genus of about 175-210 Asteraceae herbs, mainly circum-Mediterranean, known as chamomiles; Anthemis nobilis is now Chamaemelum nobile, Roman chamomile, and Anthemis cotula is a toxic chamomile look-alike.

Anthemis Insurance Venture Growth Fund I S.C.Sp

Anthemis Insurance Venture Growth Fund I S.C.Sp is a Luxembourg special limited partnership venture capital fund, formed in 2019 by Anthemis Group to invest in growth-stage insurance technology companies.

Anthems in Animal Farm

Anthems in Animal Farm: "Beasts of England", Old Major's revolutionary song from Orwell's 1945 novella, banned in chapter seven and replaced by Minimus's "Animal Farm!" and a Napoleon anthem, paralleling the Soviet replacement of The Internationale in 1944.

Anther culture

Anther culture is a plant tissue culture technique in which immature anthers are grown so their pollen develops into haploid plants, doubled into homozygous lines for breeding.

Antheraea polyphemus

Antheraea polyphemus, the polyphemus moth (also historically Telea), is a large North American saturniid silk moth with a 10-15 cm wingspan, transparent hindwing eyespots, non-feeding adults, and a range spanning southern Canada to Mexico, absent only in Arizona and Nevada.

Antheridiogen

Antheridiogen (AG, A-substanz) is a gibberellin-like pheromone from mature female fern gametophytes that turns nearby young gametophytes precociously male; discovered by Döpp in 1950, with types A, B, and C across fern families.

Antheridium

Antheridium (plural antheridia): the male gametangium producing sperm in bryophytes, ferns, some algae, and fungi; jacket cells enclose spermatogenous cells, and water is needed for sperm release and swimming.

Anthicidae

Anthicidae, the antlike flower beetles (Latreille, 1819; synonym Notoxidae), are ant-mimicking tenebrionoid beetles, about 3,000-3,500 species in 100-102 genera, omnivorous, on all continents except Antarctica.

Anthills of the Savannah

Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, his fifth and last, set in the fictional West African country of Kangan.

Anthim the Iberian

Anthim the Iberian (Antim Ivireanul) was a Georgian-born Orthodox hierarch and printer, Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia from 1708 to 1716, who directed the printing of 63 books.

Anthimos I

Anthimos I, also Anthimus, was a monk and bishop of Trebizond who served as Patriarch of Constantinople from 535 to 536, deposed as a Monophysite.

Anthimos II

Anthimos II (Άνθιμος Β΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 18 June to 22 September 1623, between the second and third reigns of Cyril I Lucaris.

Anthimos III

Anthimos III (Άνθιμος Γ΄), surname Chorianopoulos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1822 to 1824, during the Greek War of Independence, and died in Smyrna in 1842.

Anthimos IV

Anthimos IV (Ἄνθιμος Δ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in two non-consecutive terms, 1840–1841 and 1848–1852, chiefly remembered for the 1850 tomos granting autocephaly to the Church of Greece.

Anthimos V

Anthimos V (Πατριάρχης Άνθιμος Ε΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1841 to 1842, elected after the sultan removed Anthimos IV and dying in office.

Anthimos VI

Anthimos VI (Ἄνθιμος Στ´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times, in 1845–1848, 1853–1855, and 1871–1873, chairing the 1872 synod that condemned the Bulgarian Exarchate.

Anthimos VII

Anthimos VII (Ἄνθιμος Ζ΄), born Angelos Tsatsos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1895 to 1897, remembered for a 1895 encyclical rejecting Pope Leo XIII's reunion proposal and for the Skopje crisis that ended his reign.

Anthoceros

Anthoceros is the most species-rich hornwort genus (60 species), named by Linnaeus in 1753, family Anthocerotaceae; includes the model species Anthoceros agrestis with a tiny 116 Mb genome, pyrenoid-bearing chloroplasts, and Nostoc nitrogen-fixing symbiosis.

Anthocoridae

Anthocoridae, the minute pirate bugs or flower bugs (Fieber, 1837), is a family of 400-600 tiny (1.4-4.5 mm) predaceous true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicoidea) found worldwide, important as biological control agents against thrips and psyllids.

Anthocyanin

Anthocyanins are water-soluble flavonoid plant pigments, glycosides of anthocyanidins, giving red, purple, and blue colors of flowers, fruits, and vegetables; pH-sensitive flavylium chemistry, over 600 known forms, used as natural food colorants.

Anthoine Hubert

Anthoine Hubert (1996–2019), French racing driver, 2018 GP3 Series champion with ART and Renault Sport Academy member, killed in the 2019 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 Feature Race crash; F2's best-rookie award bears his name.

Anthologia Latina

The Anthologia Latina is a modern compilation of late antique Latin epigrams and short poems, drawn from manuscripts and inscriptions and centered on the Codex Salmasianus.

Anthology

Anthology: a book compiling works, usually short stories, poems, or essays, by multiple authors around a theme, genre, or period. From Greek anthologia, "gathering of flowers"; distinguished from the single-author collection; includes annual year's-best series.

Anthology 1

Anthology 1 (1995) is the Beatles' double compilation of rare recordings covering the late 1950s to 1964, released November 21, 1995, opening with "Free As A Bird", the Lennon-demo reunion single.

Anthology 4

Anthology 4 is the Beatles' fourth archival compilation, released November 21, 2025 by Apple Corps: 36 tracks, 13 previously unreleased, with new Jeff Lynne mixes of Free as a Bird and Real Love, issued with the restored Disney+ Anthology series.

Anthology Collection

Anthology Collection is The Beatles' 2025 box set (Apple Corps/Capitol/UMe, 21 November 2025) gathering the mid-1990s Anthology 1-3 albums remastered by Giles Martin plus the new Anthology 4, 191 tracks on 8CD, 12LP, or digital.

Anthology film

Anthology film, also called omnibus or portmanteau film: a feature-length movie of several self-contained short segments joined by a theme or framing device, from Waxworks (1924) and Dead of Night (1945) to Kinds of Kindness (2024).

Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives is a New York City institution devoted to preserving, studying, and showing independent and experimental film, opened in 1970 by Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, and others.

Anthology of American Folk Music

Anthology of American Folk Music: 1952 Folkways six-LP compilation of 84 commercial 78 rpm recordings (c. 1927–32) compiled by Harry Smith in three volumes, Ballads, Social Music, Songs; reissued 1997 on 6 CD, credited with inspiring the American folk revival.

Anthology of the Killer

Anthology of the Killer is a collection of nine comedy-horror adventure games by Stephen Gillmurphy. The games follow BB through a surreal world of forbidden museums and serial killers.