American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... trees , and the like . The clearness of the grain makes it also fit for all kinds of carved works , and most ornaments relating to architecture . ELOCUTION , in rhetoric , the adapt- ing words and sentences to the things or Sentiments ...
... trees , and the like . The clearness of the grain makes it also fit for all kinds of carved works , and most ornaments relating to architecture . ELOCUTION , in rhetoric , the adapt- ing words and sentences to the things or Sentiments ...
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... tree , exerting himself to cheer her confinement by his song , which , however , is harsh and monotonous in the extreme ; at short in- tervals he utters a sort of trembling shriek , several times repeated . E. oryzi- vora , or the rice ...
... tree , exerting himself to cheer her confinement by his song , which , however , is harsh and monotonous in the extreme ; at short in- tervals he utters a sort of trembling shriek , several times repeated . E. oryzi- vora , or the rice ...
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... tree , cinnamon tree , camphor tree , benjamin tree , sas- safras tree , and the avocado or avogato pear . ENS martis , an old name given by chemists to sal ammoniac sublimed with iron filings , and therefore consisting of muriate of ...
... tree , cinnamon tree , camphor tree , benjamin tree , sas- safras tree , and the avocado or avogato pear . ENS martis , an old name given by chemists to sal ammoniac sublimed with iron filings , and therefore consisting of muriate of ...
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... tree growing in the forests of Guiana , where it flowers in the month of October . EPIBATERIUM , in botany , a genus of the Monoecia Hexandria class and or- der . Essential character : calyx double ; outer six EPH EPI.
... tree growing in the forests of Guiana , where it flowers in the month of October . EPIBATERIUM , in botany , a genus of the Monoecia Hexandria class and or- der . Essential character : calyx double ; outer six EPH EPI.
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... trees , or shrubs ; leaves as in dolichos , ternate , stipulace- ous ; the petiolules jointed and awned , or glandular , seldom simple ; flowers in fas- cicles from the axils , or in spikes at the ends of the stem and branches ...
... trees , or shrubs ; leaves as in dolichos , ternate , stipulace- ous ; the petiolules jointed and awned , or glandular , seldom simple ; flowers in fas- cicles from the axils , or in spikes at the ends of the stem and branches ...
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