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NOISE |
Fresh one is sound |
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POLYPHONE |
A character or vocal sign representing more than one
sound, as read, which is pronounced red. |
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ADDITION |
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that
its sound is to be lengthened one half. |
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PROTOPLASTA |
A division of fresh-water rhizopods including
those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The
genus Gromia is one of the best-known. |
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DREISSENA |
A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D.
polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh
waters of Europe. |
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PLURODERES |
A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck
can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The
matamata is an example. |
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FLAGEOLET |
A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a
mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than
of the piccolo flu... |
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TEAL |
Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the
genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is
handsomely color... |
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CATACHRESIS |
A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another,
or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take
arms against a s... |
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LOACH |
Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of
the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more
barbules aroun... |
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MYSIS |
A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and
salt water; the opossum shrimps. One species inhabits the Great Lakes
of North Ameri... |
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TRILL |
A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid
succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some
one part of the or... |
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WIDGEON |
Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks,
especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas.
The common European widg... |
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MEDIUM |
A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one
thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The
condition upon ... |
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SUCKER |
Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water
cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips
are protrusil... |
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PYXIS |
The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.
Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound
(that of k), and is always followed b... |
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GLIDE |
A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the
changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and
with gradual ch... |
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SYLLABLE |
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary
sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the
voice, and constituting... |
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RYTINA |
A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong
and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also
Steller's sea ... |