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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
The attraction that holds water to soil particles. Contributes to soil cohesion and the formation of helpful colloids.
Industry:Biology
A high-pressure system that spirals outward clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern.
Industry:Biology
Metamorphism that changes a rock's shape without changing it chemically. Sometimes associated with mountain-building.
Industry:Biology
Dark-colored, igneous, and high in iron and magnesium and other heavy elements (as in gabbro and basalt). See Felsic.
Industry:Biology
A pollen-generating stalk at the base of a flower's petals. Flowers typically have six of them, just to make certain.
Industry:Biology
A mutually beneficial relationship in which the two participants join into a single organ or body. Example: lichens.
Industry:Biology
Undigested food particles bound in mucus and discarded by oysters and mussels. Some bottom-feeding organisms eat it.
Industry:Biology
Small, tough, drought-resistant evergreen leaves. Also, a plant whose deep roots and small leaves resist water loss.
Industry:Biology
A tree cut back to the trunk to make its branching or foliage denser. Also, an animal without horns (e.g., a sheep).
Industry:Biology
A piece of stem grafted between the scion and the stock for improved root strength, bark, and flowers. See Grafting.
Industry:Biology
