(from the article "souari nut") any of the seeds borne in large, clustered fruits of trees of the genus Caryocar (family Caryocaraceae), which has about 15 species. C. nuciferum, from Panama and northern South America, ...
(from the article "Malpighiales") There are several unplaced families in Malpighiales. Members of Caryocaraceae are evergreen trees to shrubs whose leaves have three leaflets and basal stipules. The large flowers are borne in racemes ...
the pink, or carnation, family of flowering plants (order Caryophyllales), comprising some 86 genera and 2,200 species of herbaceous annuals and perennials, mainly of north temperate distribution. The members are ... [2 Related Articles]
pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, ...
(from the article "flatworm") ...long and N-shaped; genital pores at or near posterior extremity; intestinal parasites of teleosts (bony fish); 105 species.Uterus a coiled tube; genital pore well separated from posterior extremity; intestinal ...
specialized type of dry, one-seeded fruit (achene) characteristic of grasses, in which the ovary wall is united with the seed coat, making it difficult to separate the two except by ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Verbenaceae") ...bear clusters of white, rose, or purplish flowers. L. canescens of South America is a matting ground cover with oblong leaves and small heads of yellow-throated, lilac flowers. Caryopteris, with ...
(from the article "palm") ...South America are sought by fish and by the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). Wild dogs (family Canidae) and palm civets (Paradoxurus) devour fruits of Arenga and Caryota in Asia. Studies ...
(from the article "palm") ...are obtained by tapping inflorescences of the sugar palm (Arenga pinnata), the palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer), the wild date (Phoenix sylvestris), the toddy palm (Caryota urens), the nipa palm, and ...
(from the article "guava") ...skin and white, yellow, or pink flesh. The cattley guava occurs in two forms: one has fruits with a bright yellow skin, and the other's fruits have a purplish red ...
(from the article "Natalis, Alexander") In 1701 Natalis signed the Cas de conscience ("Case of Conscience"), a document allowing "silent submission" to a Jansenist asking for absolution, but, when it was condemned by Pope Clement ...
(from the article "Gaudi, Antoni") ...to transmit diagonal thrusts, and thin-shell, laminated tile vaults that exert very little thrust. Gaudi applied his equilibrated system to two multistoried Barcelona apartment buildings: the Casa Batllo (1904-06), a ...
(from the article "Guatemala") ...formally recognized the government's responsibility for much of the country's violence by compensating peasants for lands and lives lost during the civil war (1961-96). Berger turned over the Casa Crema-a ...
(from the article "Architecture and Civil Engineering") ...the Clinton Presidential Center (Little Rock, Ark.), a riverfront structure shaped and constructed like a bridge and designed by the New York City architectural firm Polshek Partnership; the Casa da ...
(from the article "Potosi") ...buildings and the cathedral. Other notable structures include the Church of San Lorenzo (mainly 16th century), with its ornate Baroque facade, and the Convent of Santa Teresa (1691). The Casa ...
(from the article "Salamanca") ...times; the Torre del Clavero (c. 1480), almost all that remains of the town walls; the legendary Cave of Salamanca in the ruined crypt of the former Church of St. ...
(from the article "gremio") Jurisdiction over all the guilds was in the hands of the Casa dos Vinte e Quatro ("House of Twenty-four"), which was composed of two elected representatives from each of 12 ...
city, Pinal county, south-central Arizona, U.S. It lies near the Santa Cruz River, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The city is a health resort ...
pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley immediately north of Coolidge. Authorized as Casa Grande Ruins Reservation in 1889 and proclaimed as such in 1892, the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Morgan, Julia") ...in the Bay area. After World War I she began work in earnest for the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who in 1919 commissioned her to build a country house ...
(from the article "jazz") In the early 1930s two bands made important contributions to jazz: Bennie Moten's, with the recordings of Toby,Lafayette, and Prince ...
(from the article "Sevilla") The Casa Lonja, adjacent to the cathedral and finished in 1599, houses the General Archive of the Indies, a superb collection of books, plans, manuscripts, and several million documents bearing ...
(from the article "Gaudi, Antoni") ...equilibrated system to two multistoried Barcelona apartment buildings: the Casa Batllo (1904-06), a renovation that incorporated new equilibrated elements, notably the facade; and the Casa Mila (1905-10), the several floors ...
(from the article "Latin American architecture") ...culture. The government provided the most important commissions, which were intended to consolidate this period of rapid economic expansion. In Buenos Aires, Francisco Tamburini remodeled the Casa Rosada in the ...
Italian bishop, poet, and translator who is remembered chiefly for his popular and widely translated treatise on manners, Galateo. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "melon") Inodorus group, the winter melons, including the large, smooth-skinned, mildly flavoured, and light green- to white-fleshed honeydew, casaba, and Persian melons;
(January 12-23, 1943), meeting during World War II in Casablanca, Morocco, between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their respective military chiefs and aides, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Casablanca Records") Even in the bacchanal of 1970s Los Angeles, the drug and promotional excesses of Casablanca Records stood out. In a period when cocaine use was probably at its peak in ...
town, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, on the Po River in the Monferrato Hills east of Turin. It was founded in the 8th century on the site of ancient Bodincomagus. ... [1 Related Articles]
region of Senegal that lies south of The Gambia along the Casamance River. The region has ample rainfall, abundant in the south, and the lower course of the Casamance River ... [4 Related Articles]
river in western Africa, rising in southern Senegal and flowing west through the Casamance region, which lies between The Gambia (north) and Guinea-Bissau (south). The river receives various small tributaries ...
(from the article "feudalism") ...over the people living there. In many areas the term feudum, as well as the terms beneficium and casamentum, came to ...
(from the article "Spanish literature") ..."Diary of a Poet Recently Married"); Animal de fondo (1947; "Animal of the Depth")-springs from his lifelong pursuit of poetry and its modes of expression. Sofia Perez Casanova de Lutoslawski, ...
ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with "libertine." His autobiography, which perhaps ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "boa") The single surviving species of family Bolyeriidae (Casarea dussumieri) lives on Mauritius and Round Island. It is unique among snakes in that the lower jaw is hinged in the middle, ...
Spanish-born French tragedienne who brought her regal bearing, deep voice, and expressive eyes to such classic stage roles as Phaedra and Medea during her half-century career; she also appeared in ...
Italian Roman Catholic priest and diplomat who from the 1960s served as the Vatican's liaison to the communist bloc and from 1979 to 1990 was secretary of state and thus ...
town on the Casas Grandes River, in the northwestern corner of Chihuahua estado ("state"), northern Mexico. When it was settled by the Spaniards in 1661 or 1662, ...
(from the article "education") Education in Italy up to 1923 was governed by the Casati Law, passed in 1859, when the country was being unified. The Casati Law organized the school system on the ...
(from the article "keyboard instrument") ...and Hilborne and Frank Roosevelt. Perhaps the inevitable end of the U.S. "romantic" era was reached in Ernest M. Skinner, who lived until the middle of the 20th century. In ...
waterfall, especially a series of small falls, consisting of water descending over rocks or boulders. It may be natural or it may be artificial. The cascade has often been used ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "amplifier") ...the desired level. In such cases the output of the first amplifier is fed into a second, whose output is fed to a third, and so on, until the output ...
segment of the Pacific mountain system of western North America. The Cascades extend northward for more than 700 miles (1,100 km) from Lassen Peak, in northern California, U.S., through Oregon ... [8 Related Articles]
one of the longest railroad tunnels in the United States, located in central Washington about 60 miles (100 km) east of Seattle. It carries a line of the Burlington Northern ...
(from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...identified as the earliest known Mesoamerican writing in a report by Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, Ponciano Ortiz, and colleagues. The inscribed 12-kg (26-lb) stone, called the Cascajal block, was dated ...
(from the article "Sapindales") ...and Picrasma excelsa (Jamaica quassia) in the West Indies. At one time, the bitter leaves and licorice-flavoured bark of the West Indian and Central American Picramnia antidesma (cascara amarga) were ...
(Spanish: "sacred bark"), the dried bark of the buckthorn Rhamnus purshiana (order Rosales) used in medicine as a laxative. The tree is cultivated in North America and Kenya. Cascara sagrada ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Bologna stone") any of the dense, silvery white stones first found (1603) on Mount Paderno, near Bologna, by an Italian cobbler-alchemist, Vicenzo Cascariolo, who synthesized from them a luminescent material that glowed ...
town, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy. Local mineral springs are used to treat rheumatism. The town's Church of Santa Maria, built in Pisan style, dates from the 12th century. Cascina ...
(from the article "linguistics") ...of its various constituents and the way in which they relate to the context of utterance. A somewhat different but related aspect of functionalism in syntax is seen in current ...
(from the article "campaign furniture") Case furniture was usually teak, with recessed brass swivel handles, brass angle pieces to protect the corners, and short, turned feet (shaped on a lathe) that could be removed for ...
(from the article "ocean") ...sea level, they are subjected to subaerial erosion. Surface slope, or gradient, determines the amount of runoff and is a prime factor in this erosion. Two secondary processes also are ...
(from the article "Langdell, Christopher Columbus") ...for the bachelor of laws (LL.B.) degree. Langdell raised the law program to university standards by instituting a regular progression of mandatory courses and tests. Later he devised the case ...
(from the article "poverty") Similar to collective poverty in relative permanence but different from it in terms of distribution, case poverty refers to the inability of an individual or family to secure basic needs ...
(from the article "criminology") The case study, also called the individual case history, concentrates on the career or life of one individual or group of individuals and is the method used primarily, though not ...
independent, coeducational research university in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. The university operates professional schools of law, medicine, and dentistry, as well as Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case School of ...
American entrepreneur who cofounded America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's foremost Internet service provider (ISP), and negotiated the merger in 2001 of AOL and Time Warner Inc. to create a ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...president of Fox Film Corporation. Fox, like the Warners, had seen sound as a way of cornering the market among smaller exhibitors. Therefore, in the summer of 1926, he acquired ...
any larva of a group of moths (order Lepidoptera) that are characteristically light brown with dark heads and feed on apple, birch, cherry, and willow trees. After hatching from the ...
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...in addition to leaf miners, rollers, and tiers, larvae include stem, fruit, and seed borers as well as scavengers.Approximately 1,400 species, mainly Holarctic in distribution; small, very ...
any member of several groups within the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae (insect order Coleoptera). As she lays her eggs, the female covers each one with a layer of excrement. After ...
(from the article "Amino acid content of some proteins") Casein is precipitated not only by the addition of acid but also by the action of the enzyme rennin, which is found in gastric juice. Rennin from calf stomachs is ...
(from the article "adhesive") This product is made by dissolving casein, a protein obtained from milk, in an aqueous alkaline solvent. The degree and type of alkali influences product behaviour. In wood bonding, casein ...
painting executed with colours ground in a solution of casein, a phosphoprotein of milk precipitated by heating with an acid or by lactic acid in souring. In the form of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "telephone and telephone system") The first commercial facsimile system was introduced between Lyon and Paris, Fr., in 1863 by Giovanni Caselli, an Italian inventor. The first successful use of optical scanning and transmission of ...
(from the article "African literature") ...of religion the Reverend Carl Christian Reindorf wrote one of the first works by an African to make use of oral traditions, The History of the Gold Coast and Asante ...
(from the article "tineid moth") The pale larvae of the clothes moth infest woolens, furs, and other animal products. Well-known species include the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella), the casemaking clothes moth (Tinea pellionella), and ...
(from the article "art and architecture, Syro-Palestinian") ...in the 10th century BC, such military architecture had been standardized, for at three cities-Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer-walls and gates alike are almost identical. Walls are of the casemate type ...
(from the article "casement window") ...at the upright side of the vertically hung sash, so that it opens outward or inward along its entire length in the manner of a door. One frame, separately movable, ...
earliest form of movable window, wood or metal framed, with hinges or pivots at the upright side of the vertically hung sash, so that it opens outward or inward along ... [1 Related Articles]
distinguished British public servant who was executed for treason and became one of the principal Irish martyrs in the revolt against British rule in Ireland. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "pseudotuberculosis") ...and nocardiosis (q.v.); pseudotuberculous thyroiditis is now designated granulomatous thyroiditis (see thyroiditis). In veterinary medicine, "pseudotuberculosis" denotes caseous lymphadenitis, a disease of sheep and goats caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, and ...
cabecera (county seat) of Tres de Febrero partido (county), in Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, immediately west of the city of Buenos Aires, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rosas, Juan Manuel de") ...and churches as a sign of his supreme command. Finally a coalition of Brazilians, Uruguayans, and native Argentinians, under the leadership of Justo Jose de Urquiza, overthrew Rosas at the ...
city, Campania regione, southern Italy, north of Naples. The old town (Caserta Vecchia), founded by the Lombards in the 8th century, lies on hills 3 miles (5 km) north-northeast of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Literature") ...died in 2005: poet Mario Luzi, who in 2004 had been appointed a lifetime member of the Senate for his extraordinary contributions to Italian culture (seeObituaries), ...
(from the article "social service") The origins of modern social casework can be traced to the appointment of the first medical almoners in Britain in the 1880s, a practice quickly adopted in North American and ...
American businessman (b. Feb. 28, 1920, Boston, Mass.-d. July 10, 2004, Dallas, Texas), led American Airlines through the first years of deregulation and later oversaw the dismantling of failed savings ...
(from the article "Golf") Another member of the winning Ryder Cup side, Englishman Paul Casey, finished one of the games with a hole in one just a week after having won golf's biggest first ...
(from the article "Australia") ...to its friends within the region and began an inflow of Asian students into Australia that became a permanent and considerable phenomenon. The minister for external affairs between 1951 and ...
powerful and controversial director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1981 to 1987 during the Ronald Reagan administration. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...at the bookstore of poet Octave Cremazie, its dozen members shared patriotic, conservative, and strongly Roman Catholic convictions about the survival of French Canada. Their spokesman, Henri-Raymond Casgrain, promoted a ...
(from the article "business finance") One of the principal methods of forecasting the financial needs of a business is the cash budget, which predicts the combined effects of planned operations on the firm's cash flow. ...
(from the article "Asia") Asia is noted for several plantation cash crops, of which the most important are tea, rubber, palm oil, coconuts, and sugarcane. Jute, a commercial fibre, though it has decreased in ...
(from the article "Table 3: Any Company, Inc.: Statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 20__") Companies also prepare a third financial statement, the statement of cash flows. Cash flows result from three major aspects of the business: (1) operating activities, (2) investing activities, and (3) ...
(from the article "government budget") In the United Kingdom all public expenditure planning is now performed on a cash basis, and many programs are "cash limited," whatever the level of inflation. This procedure, to which ...
(from the article "commodity trade") Trade in primary goods may take the form of a normal exchange of goods for money as in any everyday transaction (referred to technically as trade in "actuals"), or it ...
business machine that usually has a money drawer and is designed to record sales transactions. The typical cash register of the mid-20th century, through a system of keys, levers, and ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "government economic policy") The third tool of monetary policy, that of the cash reserve requirements (and, in some countries, certain types of government securities) for commercial banks, provides that banks must maintain money ...
American singer, songwriter, and actress, who was a leading figure in country music, especially noted for her work with the Carter Family and Johnny Cash. [4 Related Articles]
U.S. stage and screen actress who performed with the Negro Ensemble Company and was especially noted for her portrayal of the daughter in Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1969, a ...
American author, editor, and journalist, best known for his single book, The Mind of the South (1941), a classic analysis of white Southern temperament and culture.
(from the article "marketing") Limited-service wholesalers, who offer fewer services to their customers and suppliers, emerged in order to reduce the costs of service. There are several types of limited-service wholesalers. Cash-and-carry wholesalers usually ...
town and urban district, County Tipperary, southern Ireland, about 30 miles (50 km) east-southeast of Limerick. The town's landscape is dominated by the 358-foot (109-metre) Rock of Cashel, a limestone ...
