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Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where you can find different words with same meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Lexical lists. 16th tablet of the Urra=hubullu lexical series, Louvre Museum. The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their Akkadian or other language equivalents. [1] They are the oldest literary texts from Mesopotamia and one of the most ...
Verbena rigida, known as slender vervain [2] [3] or tuberous vervain, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Verbenaceae. It is native to Brazil and Argentina, and is not fully hardy in temperate climates, where consequently it is grown from seed as an annual . Growing to 60 centimetres (24 in), it has a spreading habit, with ...
Caloscypha. Caloscypha is a fungal genus in the family Caloscyphaceae (order Pezizales ). A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Caloscypha fulgens, commonly known as the snowbank orange peel fungus, [2] spring orange peel fungus, the golden cup, or the dazzling cup. It is a cup fungus, typically up to 4 centimetres ( in) in diameter ...
The Dazer Laser also operates as a high-powered, long range search-light, and is water-proof up to 20 m (2 atm). Both the Defender and Guardian are weapons-mountable using MIL Std 1913 Picatinny Rail adapters and have been ruggedized for transport and gunfire, vibration and shock. All Dazer Laser products are powered by CR 123A-3V lithium ...
Blue-tailed Bee eater, Dhaka, Bangladesh The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia where many populations are strongly migratory, and seen seasonally in many parts but breeding colonially in small areas across their range, mostly in river valleys, where they nest by ...
Galearis spectabilis, commonly known as showy orchis [2] [3] or showy orchid, [2] is an orchid species of the genus Galearis. It is native to eastern Canada ( Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick) and much of the eastern half of the United States. In america they are found from eastern Oklahoma north to eastern South Dakota in the west and from ...
Quercus buckleyi. Quercus subg. Quercus. Quercus rubra var. texana Engelm. Quercus buckleyi, commonly known as Texas red oak, Buckley's oak, or Spanish oak [4] [5] is a species of flowering plant. [6] [7] It is endemic to the southern Great Plains of the United States ( Oklahoma and Texas ). [8]
Stenocereus (from Ancient Greek στενός (stenós) 'narrow', and Latin cereus 'candle') is a genus of columnar or tree-like cacti from the Baja California Peninsula and other parts of Mexico, Arizona in the United States, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela and the West Indies. The genus has been enlarged by the addition of species ...
Synonyms of T. pembinensis Hainosaurus pembinensis Nicholls, 1988 Tylosaurus (from the ancient Greek τύλος ( tylos ) 'protuberance, knob' + Greek σαῦρος ( sauros ) 'lizard') is a genus of mosasaur , a large, predatory marine reptile closely related to modern monitor lizards and snakes , from the Late Cretaceous .