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He perhaps thought that water could travel apically by the wood, but only by the bark in the opposite direction.

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir

ANT-LION, the name given to neuropterous insects of the family Myrmeleonidae, with relatively short and apically clubbed antennae and four large densely reticulated wings in which the apical veins enclose regular oblong spaces.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various