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A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
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A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
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A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
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A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
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A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
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A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.
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A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
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