(from the article "Gunnerales") Members of Myrothamnus are aromatic-resinous shrubs from Africa and Madagascar; the two species in the genus are vegetatively very distinctive. The leaves are opposite and have a long common sheath ...
(from the article "balsam") Balsam of Peru, a fragrant, thick, deep brown or black fluid used in perfumery, is a true balsam, the product of a lofty leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, growing in a ...
(from Arabic murr, "bitter"), bitter-tasting, agreeably aromatic, yellow to reddish brown oleoresinous gum obtained from various small, thorny, flowering trees of the genus Commiphora, of the incense-tree family (Burseraceae). The ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Alcaeus") A new tyrant, Myrsilus, came to power in Lesbos, and Alcaeus became his fierce opponent. After the failure of a conspiracy, Alcaeus went into exile in Pyrrha, a small town ...
(from the article "Ericales") Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is pantropical and temperate, especially north temperate, with species from trees to herbs. There are about 41 genera and 1,435 species in the family.
the myrtle family of shrubs and trees, in the order Myrtales, containing about 150 genera and 3,300 species that are widely distributed in the tropics. They have rather leathery evergreen ... [3 Related Articles]
the myrtle order of flowering plants, composed of 14 families, 380 genera, and about 11,000 species distributed throughout the tropics and warmer regions of the world. The majority of these ...
(from the article "Pelops") In more hostile versions, Pelops bribed Oenomaus' charioteer, Myrtilus, to remove the linchpins from Oenomaus' chariot. After his victory, for reasons that are given differently in different sources, he threw ...
any of the evergreen shrubs in the genus Myrtus, belonging to the family Myrtaceae. Authorities differ widely over the number of species the genus includes. Most occur in South America; ...
city, Horry county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. It lies along the Atlantic coast between the ocean and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. From the early 1900s Myrtle Beach was developed as ...
(from the article "beech") ...seven centimetres long, found in New South Wales; the mountain beech (N. cliffortioides), a 12-m-tall New Zealand tree with glossy, toothless leaves about one centimetre long; the myrtle beech, Tasmanian ...
(from the article "wood warbler") ...Dendroica is the largest genus of wood warblers; this chiefly North American genus has 27 species, most of which have contrasting plumage, such as the black, white, and yellow of ...
(from the article "court") Palaces often included a complex of courts. The Alhambra in Granada, Spain, built in the 13th and 14th centuries, has six, including the Court of the Lions and Court of ...
(from the article "hutia") ...up to 8.5 kg (19 pounds). The tail ranges from very short and inconspicuous in Brown's hutia (Geocapromys brownii) to pronounced and prehensile in the long-tailed Cuban hutia Mysateles prehensilis. ...
ancient district in northwest Anatolia adjoining the Sea of Marmara on the north and the Aegean Sea on the west. A vague inland perimeter was bounded by the districts of ...
(from the article "Mysia") Homer mentioned the Mysians (for whom the region was named) as primitive allies of the Trojans, but historically there is no record of their action as an independent nation. Mysia ...
(from the article "opossum shrimp") ...or crawl along the bottom; others creep among vegetation. Certain species swim in the open water, occasionally forming swarms consisting of great numbers of individuals. The freshwater species Mysis relicta, ...
(from the article "Tennis") ...the product of her supremacy on the surface. Moreover, Mauresmo held back the tenacious 2004 champion Sharapova 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in the semifinals and ousted 2004 French Open victor Anastasiya ...
city, south-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. It lies northwest of Chamundi Hill and midway between the Cauvery and Kabbani rivers on the undulating Deccan plateau at an elevation ...
graphical puzzle-adventure electronic game that debuted in 1993 and was designed by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller for American game manufacturers Cyan Worlds and Broderbund Software. Advanced graphics and an ...
(from the article "bat") ...simple muzzle; ears large; second finger reduced to rudiment. Roost alone or in small groups, often in still-furled banana leaves. Biology poorly known.2 small species ...
(from the article "Cartesianism") ...mind-body interaction seems to be impossible, human beings experience it, and God can make it happen. The British philosopher Colin McGinn, for example, is among a group of thinkers, known ...
(from the article "mystery religion") There are few paintings from the temples of the mystery religions that have been preserved; nevertheless, some of these deserve comment. The superb Dionysiac frescoes of the Villa of the ...
(from the article "transubstantiation") ...emphasis from a change of substance to a change of meaning, they coined the terms transsignification and transfinalization to be used in preference to transubstantiation. But, in his encyclical Mysterium ...
(from the article "Christianity") ...the "numinous" (the spiritual dimension), the utterly ineffable, the holy, and the overwhelming. The "holy" is manifested in a double form: as the mysterium tremendum ("mystery that ...
(from the article "Hellenistic religion") ...the seasonal drama was homologized to a soteriology (salvation concept) concerning the destiny, fortune, and salvation of the individual after death. The collective agricultural rite became a mystery, a salvific ...
one of three principal kinds of vernacular drama in Europe during the Middle Ages (along with the miracle play and the morality play). The mystery plays, usually representing biblical subjects, ... [13 Related Articles]
any of various secret cults of the Greco-Roman world that offered to individuals religious experiences not provided by the official public religions. They originated in tribal ceremonies that were performed ... [15 Related Articles]
ages-old popular genre of tales dealing with the unknown as revealed through human or worldly dilemmas; it may be a narrative of horror and terror, a pseudoscientific fantasy, a crime-solving ...
(from the article "detective story") The Mystery Writers of America, a professional organization founded in 1945 to elevate the standards of mystery writing, including the detective story, has exerted an important influence through its annual ...
historic resort village in the town (township) of Stonington, New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S. It lies at the mouth of the Mystic River, opposite West Mystic. Settled in 1654, ...
(from the article "museums, history of") ...historic sites and buildings have been restored, the latter sometimes being used as museums. This has led to the development of historic and natural landscapes as museums, such as the ...
(from the article "Christianity") ...going beyond all that we speak of as God-even the Trinity-to an inner "God beyond God," a divine Darkness or Desert in which all distinction is lost. This form of ...
(from the article "Roman Catholicism") ...believers, even though the two churches fell into schism in 1054. Furthermore, the juridical definition of the church did not include traditional themes such as the communion of saints and ...
in general, a spiritual quest for hidden truth or wisdom, the goal of which is union with the divine or sacred (the transcendent realm). Forms of mysticism are found in ... [40 Related Articles]
(from the article "Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus") ...to his shyness. His mother was Zoe Carbonopsina, the mistress of his father, Leo VI, who married her shortly after Constantine was born, against the bitter opposition of the patriarch ...
(from the article "painting, Western") ...to Charles I, from whom he, too, received a knighthood. The elegant, relaxed, aristocratic portrait style he introduced was outstandingly successful and rendered obsolete the stiff portraits of Daniel Mytens ...
a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with religious belief. It is distinguished from symbolic ... [69 Related Articles]
real-time tactical combat game series that was released in 1997 by American electronic game manufacturer Bungie Software. Dropped into a market already glutted with the legendary Warcraft and Command and ...
(from the article "myth") ...in life and custom (the "Sitz im Leben") that mythical texts originally possessed. A number of scholars, mainly in Britain and the Scandinavian countries and usually referred to as the ...
(from the article "nappe") ...deep, V-shaped valleys. Elsewhere, an eroded, isolated remnant of the older rock or nappe may be completely surrounded by the younger, underlying rock; this is known as a klippe, or ...
(from the article "myth") Animals and plants have played important roles in the oral traditions and the recorded myths of the peoples of the world, both ancient and modern. This section of the article ...
(from the article "myth") ...stories long after their supposed meanings had been forgotten; and they did so, moreover, in the manifest belief that the stories referred, not to nature, but precisely to gods, heroes, ...
(from the article "Afanasev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich") ...he brought out his Poeticheskiye vozzreniya slavyan na prirodu (The Slav's Poetical Views of Nature) in three volumes, which provided the first synthesis of the theories of the Mythological school, ...
chief town of the island of Lesbos and of the nomos (department) of Lesbos, Greece. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is also the seat of a metropolitan bishop of the ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "bivalve") ...as well as retractors; ctenidia filibranch, without mantle fusions; powerful foot; marine; infaunal; living species confined to Australia. 5 species.Shell equivalve, rounded, elongate or triangular depending on ...
city, centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, situated northeast of the city of Moscow. Mytishchi's importance in the past derived from its position on the road ...
shallow lake, northern Iceland, 30 miles (48 km) east of Akureyri, drained by the Laxa River, which flows northward to the Greenland Sea. Nearly 6 miles (9.5 km) long and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Myxomycetes") Upon germination, a spore releases one or more individual cells known as myxamoebas, which may transform into so-called swarm cells with two flagella (whiplike structures used in swimming). The swarm ...
physiological reaction to lack of sufficient thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) in the adult. It can be brought about by removal of the thyroid for any cause, by a cessation of function ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "agnathan") Hagfishes locate their food by scent. Although some are known to eat fishes immobilized in nets, the best studied species, Myxine glutinosa, normally feeds on soft-bodied invertebrates and larger dead ...
(from the article "hagfish") ...of marine vertebrates placed with the lampreys in the superclass Agnatha. Although most classifications place all hagfishes in the family Myxinidae, they are sometimes divided into two families: Myxinidae, represented ...
(from the article "myxosporidian") ...sporoplasm, which migrates to an organ or tissue to feed and develop and ultimately to produce new spores. Representatives are Unicapsula muscularis, the cause of wormy disease in halibut; Myxobolus ...
a highly fatal infectious viral disease of rabbits. It is characterized by fever, swelling of the mucous membranes, and the presence of nodular skin tumours. The disease exists naturally in ... [3 Related Articles]
phylum of funguslike organisms within the kingdom Protista, commonly known as true slime molds. They exhibit characteristics of both protozoans (one-celled microorganisms) and fungi. Distributed worldwide, they usually occur in ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "myxosporidian") ...ultimately to produce new spores. Representatives are Unicapsula muscularis, the cause of wormy disease in halibut; Myxobolus pfeifferi, the cause of boil disease in barbels; and Myxosoma cerebralis, the cause ...
(from the article "myxosporidian") any parasite of the phylum Myxosporidia, also called Myxospora, traditionally placed in the kingdom Protista. The Myxosporidia are characterized by complex spores having at least one infective amoeboid sporoplasm and ...
any parasite of the phylum Myxosporidia, also called Myxospora, traditionally placed in the kingdom Protista. The Myxosporidia are characterized by complex spores having at least one infective amoeboid sporoplasm and ...
any of a group of viruses of the families Orthomyxoviridae (agents of influenza) and Paramyxoviridae, members of which can cause the common cold, mumps, and measles in humans, canine distemper, ...
(from the article "protist") Coelozoic or histozoic parasites of mainly cold-blooded vertebrates; one or more polar capsules within valved spores and exhibiting multinuclear plasmodial and multicellular developmental stages; polar capsules contain coiled, nonhollow polar ...
(from the article "fungus") ...periplasm (a peripheral layer of protoplasm); example genera include Apodachlyella, Ducellieria, Leptolegniella, and Leptomitus.Pathogenic in insects of the order Diptera; spores develop within a sporangium; example genus is Crypticola.
(from the article "annelid") ...disk-shaped or oval without external segmentation; external or internal commensals or parasites of echinoderms, especially crinoids; size, minute to 1 cm; genera include Myzostoma.Body saclike without external segmentation; anterior ...
(from the article "annelid") ...species considered separate orders by some (Nerillida, Dinophilida, Polygordiida, Protodrilida); genera include Dinophilus and Polygordius.Body disk-shaped or oval without external segmentation; external or internal commensals or parasites of echinoderms, ...
(from the article "gundi") Common gundis (Ctenodactylus gundi and C. vali) are found in parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, but the Mzab gundi (Massoutiera mzabi) has the largest range, extending from southeastern ...
(from the article "African literature") ...of life in the black townships surrounding the affluent white cities of South Africa. Some works look critically at tradition-particularly at the custom of the bride-price; others, such as Godfrey ...
South African king who founded the powerful Ndebele (Matabele) kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe. The greatest Bantu warrior after Shaka, king of the Zulus, Mzilikazi took his Kumalo people ... [8 Related Articles]
town, northwestern Malawi. Formerly the Angoni administrative centre, the town has declined in importance since 1940. The surrounding region includes the Mzimba Plain, the northern extension of the Central Region ...
(from the article "North Africa") ...with earlier megalithic structures found in northern Europe, and it is unlikely that any of them is earlier than the 1st millennium BC. Large structures in Algeria such as the ...
