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AquAdvantage salmon

AquAdvantage salmon is AquaBounty's genetically engineered Atlantic salmon with a Chinook growth hormone gene and ocean pout promoter; FDA approved it November 19, 2015 as the first GE food animal, but AquaBounty wound down farming by 2025.

Aquae *Arnemetiae

Aquae Arnemetiae, the Roman name for Buxton, Derbyshire, was a small spa town built around thermal springs sacred to the goddess Arnemetia; one of only two Aquae towns in Roman Britain, with baths, a shrine, and 232 votive coins.

Aquae Albulae (Italy)

Aquae Albulae (Acque Albule): sulphurous hypothermal springs near Tivoli, Rome, used since Roman times by Augustus and Hadrian, now the Terme di Roma spa with SSN-accredited cures.

Aquae Apollinares Novae

Aquae Apollinares Novae: Roman thermal spa and sanctuary of Apollo at Vicarello on Lake Bracciano, north of Rome, twin of Aquae Apollinares Veteres (Stigliano); known from the Peutinger map, the 1852 Vicarello silver goblets, and its link to the Aqua Traiana.

Aquae Bormonis

Aquae Bormonis (Aquis Bormonis), a thermal station of Roman Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana, named for the healing god Borvo; identified with Bourbon-l'Archambault or Bourbon-Lancy, with Borvo-Damona votive inscriptions.

Aquae Caeretanae

Aquae Caeretanae was a Roman therapeutic spa near Caere, modern Cerveteri, its sulfur springs more frequented in antiquity than the city itself, rediscovered in 1986 near Sasso.

Aquae Calidae (Bulgaria)

Aquae Calidae (Therma, Thermopolis), ancient hot-springs city and spa in Burgas's Vetren district, Bulgaria; Thracian Sanctuary of the Three Nymphs, Roman thermae from Nero–Vespasian, Justinian fortress wall, medieval baths burned 1206, Ottoman bath of Suleiman the Magnificent, excavated since 2008.

Aquae Carpitanae

Aquae Carpitanae (Aquae Calidae Carpitanae) was a Roman thermal spa in Africa Proconsularis at modern Hammam Korbous on Cap Bon, Tunisia, attested by Livy, Strabo, and a 41 BC inscription, near the Julian colony Carpis.

Aquae Celenae

Aquae Celenae (Aquis Celenis) was a Roman thermal settlement in Gallaecia, capital of the Celeni, identified with Caldas de Reis, Pontevedra; a mansio on via XIX with Edovius inscriptions and 45-50 °C springs.

Aquae Convenarum

Aquae Convenarum, "waters of the Convenae", a Roman thermal station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Aquis Convenarum, 457,7), Barrington Atlas 25 F2, identified with Bagnères-de-Bigorre or Capvern in the French Pyrenees.

Aquae Cutiliae

Aquae Cutiliae was an ancient Roman bathing site near Reate, in Sabine territory, famous for its icy mineral waters and as the place where the emperor Vespasian died in 79 AD.

Aquae Dacicae

Aquae Dacicae (Aquis Dacicis), Roman thermal road station in Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco, not Dacia; identified with Sidi Moulay Yakoub near Volubilis; named for settled Dacians.

Aquae Flavianae

Aquae Flavianae (Hammam Essalihine, El Hamma) is a Roman thermal spa in Numidia, 6 km west of Khenchela, Algeria, built in 76 AD, restored in 208 by Legio III Augusta, with circular and rectangular pools still in use. Distinct from Aquae Flaviae, Chaves, Portugal.

Aquae Helveticae

Aquae Helveticae was a Roman vicus and mineral spa at modern Baden, Aargau, Switzerland, on 47 °C thermal springs by the Limmat. First named by Tacitus, burned by Legio XXI in 69 AD, rebuilt in stone, and linked to Vindonissa.

Aquae Iasae

Aquae Iasae, Roman thermal spa at Varaždinske Toplice, Croatia, in Pannonia Superior, 1st–4th century AD; 58 °C sulphur spring, 6,000 m² public complex, sanctuary, nymph cults, Constantine rebuilding.

Aquae Neri/*Neriomagus

Aquae Neri/Neriomagus, the ancient name of Néris-les-Bains (Allier, France), a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Bituriges Cubi famed for 53°C thermal springs, two Roman bath complexes, an amphitheater, and ongoing excavations.

Aquae Onesiorum

Aquae Onesiorum, also known as the Onesiorum Thermae, is an ancient thermal site recorded by Strabo and identified with Bagnères-de-Luchon in Haute-Garonne, France, at the confluence of the One and the Pique.

Aquae Segestanae

Aquae Segestanae (sive Pincianae), Roman thermal spa and road station in Segesta's territory, western Sicily, on the via Valeria; identified with Ponte Bagni, inhabited into the 8th-10th centuries AD.

Aquae Siccae

Aquae Siccae (Aquis Siccis), a Gallo-Roman road station and vicus at Saint-Cizy, Cazères, Haute-Garonne, on the Antonine Itinerary route from Toulouse to Dax; named for its marshy springs, excavated by Gabriel Manière.

Aquae Sinuessanae

Aquae Sinuessanae: sulphurous Roman thermal springs and baths of the colony of Sinuessa near Mondragone, Campania; cited by Livy, Strabo, and Pliny, visited by Narcissus, and still in therapeutic use today.

Aquae Tauri

Aquae Tauri was an ancient Roman town on the Ficoncella hill near Civitavecchia, Italy, built around a sulphurous thermal spring on an earlier Etruscan settlement, and abandoned around 107 AD.

Aquae Vescinae

Aquae Vescinae, the Roman thermal springs and baths of Suio, Castelforte (Latina, Lazio), on the Garigliano; sulphurous waters up to about 60 degrees C, cited by Pliny and Lucan, with 2nd-century BC bath ruins.

Aquafaba

Aquafaba, or chickpea cooking liquid (bean water), is a plant-based egg-white substitute coined in 2014 by Joël Roessel; it foams, emulsifies, and gels via proteins and saponins, replacing eggs in vegan meringues, mayonnaise, and cocktails.

Aquafina

Aquafina: PepsiCo's purified bottled water brand, launched 1994 in Wichita, Kansas. Municipal tap water purified by reverse osmosis, ozonation, carbon filtration, and UV; average TDS 4 ppm; sold alongside rival Dasani.

Aquagenic palmoplantar keratoderma

Aquagenic palmoplantar keratoderma, or aquagenic wrinkling of the palms, is a skin condition in which water contact triggers rapid wrinkling, papules, and burning on the palms.

Aquagenic urticaria

Aquagenic urticaria, or water urticaria, is a rare chronic inducible urticaria causing wheals after any water skin contact regardless of temperature; first described 1964, under 100 cases, treated first-line with second-generation H1 antihistamines.

Aqualad

Aqualad is the name of two DC Comics sidekicks of Aquaman: Garth, Aquaman's Atlantean partner introduced in 1960 and a founding Teen Titan, and Kaldur'ahm from Young Justice.

Aqualia

Aqualia is a Spanish water management company that operates the urban water cycle under concession contracts, majority owned by FCC with IFM Investors, serving about 45 million users.

Aqualis Partners

Aqualis Partners is a private equity secondaries firm founded in 2025 by Cari Lodge in Darien, Connecticut, buying small LP stakes in the US and Europe.

Aquaman

Aquaman, whose alter ego is Arthur Curry, is a DC Comics superhero ruling the undersea kingdom of Atlantis; he debuted in 1941 as a founding Justice League member.