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sap watery fluid of plants. Cell sap is a fluid found in the vacuoles (small cavities) ... [4 Related Articles]
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Sapele town and port, Delta state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Benin River just below ...
Sapelo Island (from the article "Sea Islands") ...claimed against James Oglethorpe; it later came into the possession of Button Gwinnett, one of ...
Saperstein, Abe (from the article "Harlem Globetrotters") The team was organized in Chicago in 1926 as the all-black Savoy Big Five. Sports ...
saphenous nerve (from the article "nervous system, human") ...surfaces of the thigh are served by branches of the anterior division of the femoral ...
saphenous vein (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...venous arch, which crosses the top of the foot not far from the base of ...
Sapieha Family princely family, important in Polish history, that was descended from Ukrainian boyars subject to Lithuania. [1 Related Articles]
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Sapindales order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, about 460 genera, and some 5,700 species ...
Sapindus saponaria (from the article "Sapindales") The fruits of Sapindus saponaria (soapberry), a tropical American species, contain saponins (chemical substances that ...
Sapir, Edward one of the foremost American linguists and anthropologists of his time, most widely known for ... [12 Related Articles]
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Sapitwa Peak (from the article "Malawi") ...69° F (21° C). On the Nyika Plateau and on the upper levels of the ...
Sapium biloculare (from the article "tallow tree") ...coated with vegetable tallow from which candles and soap are made. It is a member ...
Sapium jenmanii (from the article "tallow tree") ...seeds and elsewhere as an ornamental. The seeds are thickly coated with vegetable tallow from ...
sapodilla (species Manilkara zapota , or Achras zapota ), tropical evergreen tree of a genus of about 80 ... [3 Related Articles]
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saponification (from the article "sperm oil") ...lubricants that resisted extreme pressures. These were commonly used in mechanical transmissions, high-speed machinery, and ...
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Sapotaceae (from the article "Ericales") Sapotaceae is a largely tropical family of evergreen trees and shrubs. There are 53 genera ...
sapote (species Pouteria sapota ), plant of the sapodilla family (Sapotaceae), native to Central America but cultivated ...
Sapper British soldier and novelist who won immediate fame with his thriller Bull-Dog Drummond (1920), subtitled ...
sapper military engineer. The name is derived from the French word sappe ("spadework," or "trench") and ...
sapphic stanza (from the article "prosody") A metrical paradigm much used by both Greek and Latin poets was the so-called Sapphic ...
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sapping (from the article "valley") Sapping is a process of hillslope or scarp recession by the undermining of an overlying ...
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Sapporo Olympics (from the article "Olympic Games") After two unsuccessful attempts to secure the Olympics, Sapporo was finally awarded the 11th Winter ...
Sapri expedition (from the article "Italy") ...the democratic movement and discouraged its most dedicated adherents. Mazzini faced complete isolation for his ...
Sapria (from the article "Rafflesiaceae") ...Pilostyles (22 species), Bdallophytum (4 species), Apodanthes (5 species), Rafflesia (12 species), Cytinus (6 species), ...
saprogenesis (from the article "plant disease") Saprogenesis is the part of the pathogen's life cycle when it is not in vital ...
Saprolegnia (from the article "malachite green") ...medicinally in dilute solution as a local antiseptic. Malachite green is effective against fungi and ...
Saprolegniales (from the article "fungus") ...Salilagenidiales Marine, parasitic on prawns and lobsters; mycelia penetrate exoskeleton; example genus is Haliphthoros . Order Saprolegniales (water ...
saprolite (from the article "aluminum processing") ...apatite and alunite in Europe, kaolinite in the southeastern United States. Other nonbauxite sources of ...
sapropel unconsolidated sedimentary deposit rich in bituminous substances. It is distinguished from peat in being rich ... [2 Related Articles]
sapropelic coal hydrogen-rich coal, including cannel coal and boghead coal (see torbanite), derived from sapropels (loose deposits ...
saprophyte (from the article "angiosperm") ...(primary producers) that use solar radiation, carbon dioxide, water, and minerals to synthesize organic compounds; ...
saprozoonosis (from the article "animal disease") ...and invertebrate animals are required as intermediate hosts in the transmission to humans of metazoonoses; ...
Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur jurist and statesman important in the progress of British India toward self-government. For his integrity ... [1 Related Articles]
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Saptamatrka (Sanskrit: "Seven Divine Mothers"), in Hinduism, a group of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is ...
Sapulpa city, seat (1907) of Creek county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. In 1886 the Frisco Railroad reached ...
sapwood outer, living layers of the secondary wood of trees, which engage in transport of water ... [3 Related Articles]
Saqalibah in medieval Muslim Spain, Slavs, or people from the Black Sea coast north of Constantinople. ...
Saqiyat Sidi Yusuf (from the article "Atlas Mountains") ...Onk and El Kouif. Lead and zinc also have become important. In Tunisia the High ...
Saqqarah part of the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, 15 miles (24 km) ... [6 Related Articles]
Sar Mashhad (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...ancient Gur, also in Fars-are two reliefs of Ardashir I, one depicting the overthrow of ...
Sar Mountains mountain range in western Macedonia, one of the most rugged and impassable in the Balkans, ... [1 Related Articles]
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Sara Buri town, central Thailand, northeast of Bangkok. Sara Buri (locally called Pak Phrieo) is on the ...
Sara Lee Corporation major American producer of frozen baked goods, fresh and processed meats, coffee, hosiery and knitwear, ...
Sarab carpet (from the article "Heriz carpet") Different phases of this production and individual subvarieties have been sold in the West under ...
sarabande originally, a dance considered disreputable in 16th-century Spain, and, later, a slow, stately dance that ... [1 Related Articles]
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Saracen in the Middle Ages, any person-Arab, Turk, or other-who professed the religion of Islam. Earlier ... [10 Related Articles]
Sarachchandara, E. R. (from the article "South Asian arts") There has been an important revival of interest in drama in Sri Lanka since independence. ...
Saracino, Peter (from the article "Advances in Battlefield Medicine") Studies of historical casualty rates have shown that about one-half of military personnel killed in ...
Saracoglu, Sukru statesman who served as prime minister of the Turkish republic from 1942 to 1946.
Sarada script writing system used for the Kashmiri language by the educated Hindu minority in Kashmir and ... [2 Related Articles]
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Saragossa, Treaty of (from the article "Europe, history of") ...epic achievement. Similar hopes inspired Spanish exploitation of the discovery by Christopher Columbus of the ...
Sarah in the Old Testament, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Sarah was childless until ... [3 Related Articles]
Sarah (from the article "Tobit") Concurrent with Tobit's story is that of Sarah, daughter of Tobit's closest relative, whose seven ...
Sarah (from the article "animal learning") ...reason inductively or by analogy. Indeed, analogical reasoning problems (black is to white as night ...
Sarah binti Pengiran Salleh Ab Rahman (from the article "Brunei") A gala royal wedding took place with much pomp and pageantry as Crown Prince Haji ...
Sarah Island (from the article "Macquarie Harbour") ...Lachlan Macquarie, then governor of New South Wales. In 1821 the coastal area was chosen ...
Sarah, Jabal (from the article "Silurian Period") ...through subareal exposure; a network of extensive tidal channels was developed across a formerly much ...
Sarai (from the article "Russia") This multinational commercial empire was unstable. Early in the history of the Golden Horde, the ...
Sarai Khola (from the article "India") In the northern parts of the Indus system, the earliest known settlements are substantially later ...
Saraikela city, southern Bihar state, northeastern India. The city is a road and agricultural-trade centre located ...
Sarajevo capital and cultural centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies in the narrow valley of ... [6 Related Articles]
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Sarakhsi, as- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...and Ibn Sina (known in Europe as Avicenna) dealt with such topics as the theory ...
Sarakka (from the article "Madderakka") Sami goddess of childbirth. She is assisted by three of her daughters-Sarakka, the cleaving woman; ...
Saralegui, Cristina In 1999 Cristina Saralegui celebrated her 10th anniversary as host and executive producer of the ...
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Saran city, east-central Kazakhstan. A major centre of coal mining in the Qaraghandy coal basin, it ...
Saranac Lake village and year-round resort, astride the Essex-Franklin county line, northeastern New York, U.S. It is ...
Sarandon, Susan American film actress who transcended the early roles of her career, when she often played ... [2 Related Articles]
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Sarangpur city, northwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just east of the Kali Sindh River. Sarangpur ...
Saransk city and capital of Mordvinia, in western Russia. It lies along the upper Insar River ...
Sarapion, Saint Egyptian monk, theologian, and bishop of Thmuis, Lower Egypt, in the Nile River delta. [1 Related Articles]
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Sararanga (from the article "Pandanales") The four genera of the family Pandanaceae-Pandanus (screw pine), Freycinetia , Sararanga , and Martellidendron -are distributed in ...
Sarasate, Pablo de celebrated Spanish violin virtuoso and composer.
Sarasin, Jean-Francois French author of elegant verse, best known for the mock epic Dulot vaincu ("Dulot Defeated"), ... [1 Related Articles]
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Sarasvati (from the article "India") ...such as peas, and the narrow perpendicular rows being used for oilseed plants such as ...
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Saraswati, Swamigal Chandrasekharendra Indian religious leader (b. May 20, 1894, Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India--d. Jan. 8, 1994, Kanchipuram, ...
Saratoga county, eastern New York state, U.S., bounded by the Hudson River to the northeast and ...
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (from the article "New York") The Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs is the summer home of the Philadelphia ...
Saratoga Springs city, Saratoga county, east-central New York, U.S. It lies in the foothills of the Adirondack ...
Saratoga, Battles of in the American Revolution, closely related engagements in the fall of 1777 that are often ... [8 Related Articles]
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Saratov oblast (province), western Russia. With an area of 38,700 square miles (100,200 square km), the ...
Saratov city and administrative centre of Saratov oblast (province), western Russia. The city ...
Saraveca language (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...American continent use number systems with bases three and four. The quinary scale, or number ...
Saravia, Alvaro Rafael (from the article "El Salvador") In September a U.S. federal judge, acting on the basis of the 1789 Alien Tort ...
Sarawa cypress (from the article "false cypress") The Sarawa cypress (C. pisifera ) of Japan, 27 to 36 metres (90 to 120 feet) ...
Sarawak historic region that is now a state of Malaysia. It comprises the northwestern part of ... [7 Related Articles]
Sarawak Museum (from the article "museums, history of") ...established in the Grand Palace at Bangkok in 1874 became, about 60 years later, the ...
Sarayupara (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") Two other Kalacuri families are known to history: the Kalacuris of Sarayupara and the Kalacuris ...
Sarazen, Gene prominent American professional golfer of the 1920s and '30s. His double eagle-i.e., his score of ... [1 Related Articles]
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Sarcee North American Plains Indians of Athabaskan linguistic stock who lived in the 18th and 19th ...
sarcina (from the article "coccus") ...are useful in identification. Pairs of cocci are called diplococci; rows or chains of such ...
Sarcocystis genus of sporozoan parasites (phylum Protozoa) that are found in the heart and skeletal muscles ...
sarcodine any protozoan of the superclass (sometimes class or subphylum) Sarcodina. These organisms have streaming cytoplasm ... [3 Related Articles]
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