The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... natural to it , part of which it loses during action , or from the application of stimuli . 3. By a process wholly unknown to us it regains this lost quantity during its repose or state of rest . In order to express the different ...
... natural to it , part of which it loses during action , or from the application of stimuli . 3. By a process wholly unknown to us it regains this lost quantity during its repose or state of rest . In order to express the different ...
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... natural history , a genus of the Vermes Zoophyta class and order . Ani- mal growing in the form of a plant ; stem stony , jointed , the joints longitudinally striate , united by spongy or horny junctures , and covered by a soft porous ...
... natural history , a genus of the Vermes Zoophyta class and order . Ani- mal growing in the form of a plant ; stem stony , jointed , the joints longitudinally striate , united by spongy or horny junctures , and covered by a soft porous ...
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... natural genus entire , notwithstanding the capsule is in some species one - celled , in others three- celled . The sea - rushes are planted on the sea - banks in Holland ; the roots running deep into the sand , and matting very much so ...
... natural genus entire , notwithstanding the capsule is in some species one - celled , in others three- celled . The sea - rushes are planted on the sea - banks in Holland ; the roots running deep into the sand , and matting very much so ...
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... Natural order of Personatæ . Acanthi , Jussieu . Essential character : corolla ringent ; capsule two- celled , opening with an elastic claw ; sta- mina with a single anther . There are eighty species , mostly natives of the Cape of Good ...
... Natural order of Personatæ . Acanthi , Jussieu . Essential character : corolla ringent ; capsule two- celled , opening with an elastic claw ; sta- mina with a single anther . There are eighty species , mostly natives of the Cape of Good ...
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... natural history , a species of the Coccus , which see . KERMES mineral , in chemistry , an anti- monial compound of great celebrity as a medicine about the beginning of the seven- teenth century ; in the new chemical ar- rangement it is ...
... natural history , a species of the Coccus , which see . KERMES mineral , in chemistry , an anti- monial compound of great celebrity as a medicine about the beginning of the seven- teenth century ; in the new chemical ar- rangement it is ...
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