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- (from the article "oyster") Oysters, in turn, are eaten by birds, sea stars, and snails, as well as by fishes. The oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinenea), a widely occurring snail, drills a tiny hole through ...
- oyster mushroom
- (from the article "fungus") ...fungi secrete adhesive substances over the surface of their hyphae, causing a passing animal that touches any portion of the mycelium to adhere firmly to the hyphae. For example, the ...
- oyster plant
- (from the article "Commelinales") ...D. thyrsiflora, both grown as blue-flowered foliage plants; Callisia, especially C. fragrans, a fragrant waxy white-flowered hanging-basket plant; and Rhoeo spathacea, or Moses-in-the-cradle, grown as a potted plant for its ...
- Oyster Rocks
- (from the article "Karachi") Karachi Harbour, on the shores of which the city is situated, is a safe and beautiful natural harbour. It is protected from storms by Kiamari Island, Manora Island, and Oyster ...
- oyster sauce
- (from the article "fish sauce") ...Cambodia, ngan-pya-ye in Myanmar (Burma), and ketjap ikan in Indonesia, fish sauce is as ubiquitious as soy sauce in the region, being especially important in Thailand and Vietnam. The oyster ...
- oyster spiny
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...are not known, but one feature was paramount in Andean eyes: throughout the central and southern Andes, wherever puna dwellers were the dominant population, there was a demand for the ...
- oyster toadfish
- (from the article "paracanthopterygian") Eggs of the oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) of the western Atlantic-one of the most carefully studied batrachiforms-are laid in dark recesses of all sorts, including sunken tin cans and shoes. ...
- oystercatcher
- any of several shorebirds, notable for their long, flattened, orange-red bills, constituting the genus Haematopus, family Haematopodidae. Found in temperate to tropical parts of the world, oystercatchers are stout-bodied birds ... [6 Related Articles]
- oystershell scale
- a species of insect in the armoured scale family, Diaspididae (order Homoptera), that is found on woody plants and secretes a hard, tough protective covering that resembles a miniature oystershell. ...
- Oz
- (from the article "Baum, L. Frank") American writer known for his series of books for children about the imaginary land of Oz.
- Oz Beg
- Mongol leader and khan of the Golden Horde, or Kipchak empire, of southern Russia, under whom it attained its greatest power; he reigned from 1312 to 1341. Oz Beg was ... [4 Related Articles]
- Oz, Amos
- Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and essayist in whose works Israeli society is unapologetically scrutinized. [2 Related Articles]
- Ozaki Koyo
- novelist, essayist, and haiku poet, one of the pioneers of modern Japanese literature. [1 Related Articles]
- Ozaki Yukio
- noted democratic politician who was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives a total of 25 times and is considered the "father of parliamentary politics" in that country.
- Ozal, Turgut
- Turkish politician, prime minister from 1983 to 1989 and president from 1989 to 1993. [2 Related Articles]
- Ozama River
- (from the article "Dominican Republic") ...coastal plain to the north from a wider belt of rolling lowlands to the south, where most of the country's sugarcane is grown. The region's main rivers all flow to ...
- Ozamis
- city, on Zamboanga peninsula, northwestern Mindanao, Philippines. The city lies on Panguil Bay, an extension of Iligan Bay of the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea. It was the site of Spanish fortifications ...
- Ozanam, Antoine Frederic
- French historian, lawyer, and scholar who founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
- Ozanam, Jacques
- (from the article "number game") ...writer Paul Halcken, and A.H. Guyot's four volumes of Nouvelles Recreations physiques et mathematiques, etc. (1769, 1786). But by far the outstanding work was that of Jacques Ozanam, the precursor ...
- Ozark
- city, seat (1870) of Dale county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Dothan. The city was first settled about 1822 and named Merricks for its first ...
- Ozark Dome
- (from the article "North America") ...to be developed. The Illinois, Kansas, and Oklahoma basins lie in the huge quadrilateral formed by the Cincinnati Anticline and mid-continental arch to east and west and by the Kankakee ...
- Ozark hellbender
- (from the article "hellbender") The Ozark hellbender (C. alleganiensis bishopi) is somewhat smaller, and its spots tend to be large blotches. It is found in the Black River system of Arkansas and Missouri.
- Ozark Mountains
- heavily forested group of highlands in the south-central United States, extending southwestward from St. Louis, Mo., to the Arkansas River. The mountains occupy an area of about 50,000 square miles ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ozark-Saint Francis National Forest
- forest areas mainly in central and northwestern Arkansas, U.S., but also including a segment along the Mississippi River in the eastern part of the state. The forest consists of several ...
- ozarkodiniform
- conodont, or small fossil that is toothlike in form and structure, that has a prominent, centrally located denticle flanked on either side by smaller, less pointed denticles. In some forms ...
- Ozarks, Lake of the
- lake in south-central Missouri, U.S., about 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Jefferson City, one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States. It is impounded by Bagnell Dam, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ozawa Jisaburo
- (from the article "Philippine Sea, Battle of the") It began on the morning of June 19, when Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo, determined on a showdown with the U.S. invaders, sent 430 planes in four waves against ships under the ...
- Ozawa, Ichiro
- Ichiro Ozawa, architect of Japan's unfolding political realignment, lost his hold on the levers of government with the formation of the new Socialist-led government in June 1994. Most observers expected ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ozawa, Seiji
- Japanese American conductor especially noted for his energetic style and his sweeping performances of 19th-century Western symphonic works. [1 Related Articles]
- Ozd
- city, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen megye (county), northern Hungary. It is 19 mi (30 km) west-northwest of Miskolc in the hill country to the north of the Bukk highland, close to the frontier ...
- Ozel, Ismet
- (from the article "Turkish literature") ...(1959; "The Gulf") and Siirler VI (1980; "Poems VI"). Karakoc also published numerous essays on Islam. The poet Ismet Ozel began his career as a Marxist, but ...
- OzEmail
- (from the article "Turnbull, Malcolm") Turnbull then entered the business world, establishing a merchant bank in 1987, founding the Internet start-up OzEmail in 1994, and joining investment bank Goldman Sachs in 1997. OzEmail became one ...
- Ozenfant, Amedee
- French painter and theoretician, who cofounded the 20th-century art movement known as Purism. [3 Related Articles]
- Ozette site
- (from the article "Washington") ...in arid eastern Washington, has yielded a 10,000-year sequence of tools left by hunters and gatherers along with some of the oldest well-documented skeletal remains in the Western Hemisphere. The ...
- Ozick, Cynthia
- American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and intellectual whose works seek to define the challenge of remaining Jewish in contemporary American life. By delving into the oldest religious sources of Judaism, ... [3 Related Articles]
- ozier pattern
- in tableware, molded basket-weave pattern produced in Germany in the 1730s on Meissen porcelain tableware. It was probably one of the numerous inventions of the celebrated modeler Johann Joachim Kandler. ...
- Ozma, Project
- attempt undertaken in 1960 to detect radio signals generated by hypothetical intelligent beings living near stars other than the Sun. Some 150 hours of intermittent observation during a four-month period ...
- ozokerite
- (from Greek ozokeros, "odoriferous wax"), naturally occurring, light yellow to dark brown mineral wax composed principally of solid paraffinic hydrocarbons (compounds chiefly of hydrogen and carbon atoms linked in chains). ...
- Ozolua
- African king, the greatest warrior-king of Benin (in modern Nigeria). Ozolua was able to extend the boundaries of Benin from the Niger River in the east virtually to Lagos in ... [1 Related Articles]
- ozone
- (O3), triatomic allotrope of oxygen (a form of oxygen in which the molecule contains three atoms instead of two as in the common form) that accounts for the distinctive odour ... [21 Related Articles]
- ozone crack
- (from the article "elastomer") Atmospheric ozone reacts readily with elastomers containing C&doublehorzbond;C double bonds, leading to breakage of molecules lying in the surface. As a result, small, deep fissures, termed ozone cracks, are formed ...
- ozone depletion
- (from the article "Antarctica") A major focus of upper atmospheric research in Antarctica is to understand the processes leading to the annual springtime depletion in stratospheric ozone-the "ozone hole." Ozone depletion has been steadily ...
- ozonide
- any of a class of chemical compounds formed by reactions of ozone (q.v.) with other compounds. Organic ozonides, often made from olefins (q.v.), are unstable, most of them decomposing rapidly ...
- ozonolysis
- (from the article "Harries, Carl Dietrich") Ozonolysis-Harries' technique of rupturing the double bonds of an unsaturated substance with ozone, followed by hydrolysis of the resulting ozonide-produced oxygenated fragments that were capable of forming readily identifiable crystalline ...
- ozonosphere
- region in the upper atmosphere between about 10 and 50 km (6 and 30 miles) in altitude, in which there are appreciable concentrations of ozone and in which the temperature ... [13 Related Articles]
- Ozoyong
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Japanese bugaku dances has been noted. Others believe "The Five Displays" derive from the "hundred entertainments" of China. Finally, an important dance play honouring Ozoyong, the son of the Dragon ...
- Ozu Yasujiro
- motion-picture director who originated the shomin-geki ("common-people's drama"), a genre dealing with lower-middle-class Japanese family life. Owing to the centrality of domestic relationships in his films, their detailed character portrayals, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ozzfest
- (from the article "Osbourne, Ozzy") ...Grammy Award for best metal performance for the song I Don't Want to Change the World. Despite announcing his retirement in 1992, he continued recording through the ...
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