Armil vs Aril - What's the difference?
armil | aril |
(obsolete) A bracelet.
(obsolete) An ancient astronomical instrument, having either one ring placed in the plane of the equator for determining the time of the equinoxes (an equinoctial armil'') or two or more rings, one in the plane of the meridian, for observing the solstices (a ''solstitial armil ).
As nouns the difference between armil and aril
is that armil is (obsolete) a bracelet while aril is a tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.armil
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Whewell)