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101genetics — /jeuh net iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. Biol. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment. 2. the genetic properties and phenomena… …
102literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
103verdure — verdured, adj. verdureless, adj. /verr jeuhr/, n. 1. greenness, esp. of fresh, flourishing vegetation. 2. green vegetation, esp. grass or herbage. 3. freshness in general; flourishing condition; vigor. [1250 1300; ME < MF, equiv. to verd green… …
104viridity — /veuh rid i tee/, n. 1. greenness; verdancy; verdure. 2. youth; innocence; inexperience. [1400 50; late ME < L viriditas, equiv. to viridi(s) green + tas TY2] * * * …
105European Plain — ▪ plain, Europe Introduction one of the greatest uninterrupted expanses of plain on the Earth s surface. It sweeps from the Pyrenees Mountains on the French Spanish border across northern Europe to the Ural Mountains in Russia. In western… …
106plant development — Introduction a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… …
107verdure — noun a) A condition of health and vigour. The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees. b) The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also …
108cit — noun /sɪt/ townsman, citydweller (term of contempt) Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north …
109unsurpassable — adjective Not surpassable; unable to be surpassed. On either side of them, as they glided onwards, the rich meadow grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow herb… …
110viridity — noun The state or condition of being virid. Syn: greenness …
