The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A ... Work of Reference to the English Language Defining Over 250,000 Words ... Containing Over One Hundred Maps and Diagrams and Nearly Four Thousand Illustrations, Band 2R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1897 |
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... genus of spiders - the Mygale , and specially the M. avicularia , a large species inhabiting Surinam , which , as both its English and its scientific names import , was formerly believed to catch birds . [ MYGALE . ] ' tbird - swindler ...
... genus of spiders - the Mygale , and specially the M. avicularia , a large species inhabiting Surinam , which , as both its English and its scientific names import , was formerly believed to catch birds . [ MYGALE . ] ' tbird - swindler ...
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... genus Cystop- teris . The veins are forked , the sori roundish with involucres fixed at their base , and open- ing by a free ex- tremity , usually lengthened . The genus is widely distrib- uted , the best Bladder - fern ( Fertile Pinna ...
... genus Cystop- teris . The veins are forked , the sori roundish with involucres fixed at their base , and open- ing by a free ex- tremity , usually lengthened . The genus is widely distrib- uted , the best Bladder - fern ( Fertile Pinna ...
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... genus of spiny - finned fishes , the typi- cal one of the family Blenniidae . The species are small , agile fishes of no economic value , often left behind in pools by tee retreating tide . They have heads are often furnished with ...
... genus of spiny - finned fishes , the typi- cal one of the family Blenniidae . The species are small , agile fishes of no economic value , often left behind in pools by tee retreating tide . They have heads are often furnished with ...
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... genus of serpents , the typical one of the family Boide . The species are found native only in America , the analogous genus in the East popularly confounded with it , namely Python , be- ing distinguished from it by the presence of ...
... genus of serpents , the typical one of the family Boide . The species are found native only in America , the analogous genus in the East popularly confounded with it , namely Python , be- ing distinguished from it by the presence of ...
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... genus , the Nar- thecium , and specially of the N. ossifragum , or Lancashire Bog - asphodel . It belongs to the order Juncace ( Rushes ) . It has a yellow - colored peri- anth , which distinguishes it from ordinary rushes . The leaves ...
... genus , the Nar- thecium , and specially of the N. ossifragum , or Lancashire Bog - asphodel . It belongs to the order Juncace ( Rushes ) . It has a yellow - colored peri- anth , which distinguishes it from ordinary rushes . The leaves ...
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