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ZOA |
Life forms |
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BIOTA |
Life forms |
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ORGANISMS |
Life forms |
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ARCHAEOZOIC |
Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal
life. |
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EUDIPLEURA |
The fundamental forms of organic life, that are
composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. |
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HOMOEOZOIC |
Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of
life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface. |
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ENCYSTMENT |
A process which, among some of the lower forms of life,
precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc. |
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LOCOMOTION |
The power of moving from place to place, characteristic
of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life. |
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ARCHAEAN |
...ng up to
the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the
appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of
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ETIQUETTE |
...d by
authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the
proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial ... |
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FORMALIST |
...to
them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes
strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and
... |
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TRAWL |
A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its
ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in
gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom. |
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HYDROCORALLIA |
... that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of
zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those
o... |
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CATAMARAN |
...in the
lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations. ... |
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NITROGEN |
... state, and as such is incapable of supporting
life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms
many important compounds,... |
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BUDDHISM |
...ation of souls through all
phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at
470,000,000. ... |