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Scrophulariales: order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Asteridae. Although most are herbaceous, some are shrubs, woody vines, or trees. Having wide distribution, they include weeds, ornamentals, and ...
scrotum: in the male reproductive system, a thin external sac of skin that is divided into two compartments; each compartment contains one of the two testes, the glands that produce sperm, ...
scrub oak: any of several small, shrubby trees of the genus Quercus, in the beech family (Fagaceae), native to dry soils in North America.
scrub typhus: acute infectious disease in humans that is caused by the parasite Rickettsia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted to humans by the bite of certain kinds of trombiculid mites, or chiggers. The ...
scrub-bird: either of two species of rare Australian birds comprising the family Atrichornithidae (order Passeriformes), allied to lyrebirds. Both species are brown, with a longish, pointed tail-rather like the brown thrasher ...
scrubland: diverse assortment of vegetation types sharing the common physical characteristic of dominance by shrubs. A shrub is defined as a woody plant not exceeding 5 metres (16.4 feet) in height ...
Scruggs, Earl: American bluegrass banjoist, the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo.
scrum: in rugby football, the packed formation of opposing forwards who, heads down, lock themselves against each other when the referee has halted play for a minor infringement of the rules. ...
scruple: unit of weight in the apothecaries' system, equal to 20 grains, or one-third dram, and equivalent to 1.296 grams. It was sometimes mistakenly assigned to the avoirdupois system. In ancient ...
scuba diving: swimming done underwater with a self-contained underwater-breathing apparatus. See underwater diving.
Scudder, Janet: American sculptor remembered for the highly popular fountains she created for many private patrons and public institutions in the early 20th century.
Scudder, Vida Dutton: American writer, educator, and reformer whose social welfare work and activism were predicated on her socialist beliefs.
Scudery, Madeleine de: French novelist and social figure whose romans a clef were immensely popular in the 17th century.
Scullin, James Henry: statesman and leader of the Australian Labor Party who as prime minister guided the country through the early years of the Great Depression but was plagued by dissension within his ...
sculling: in small-craft racing, the use of two oars, one in each hand-in single, double, and quadruple events. See rowing.
sculpin: any of the numerous, usually small fish of the family Cottidae (order Scorpaeniformes), found in both salt water and fresh water, principally in northern regions of the world. Sculpins are ...
sculpture: a form of aesthetic expression in which hard or plastic materials are worked (as by carving, molding, or welding) into three-dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding ...
sculpture, Western: history of Western sculpture from its beginnings in the Metal Age to the present.
Scunthorpe: town, unitary authority of North Lincolnshire, historic county of Lincolnshire, England. Scunthorpe is an industrial community dominated by steel making. The town sprang up after 1870 with the establishment of ...
scurfy scale: (species Chionaspis furfura), an important insect pest of fruit and ornamental trees in the United States. This insect (order Homoptera) has gray, pear-shaped females (about 3 mm [0.1 inch] long) ...
scurvy: one of the oldest-known nutritional disorders of humankind, caused by a dietary lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), a nutrient found in many fresh fruits and vegetables, particularly the citrus ...
scutage: in feudal law, payment made by a knight to commute the military service that he owed his lord. A lord might accept from his vassal a sum of money (or ...
Scutari, Lake: largest lake in the Balkans, on the frontier between Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro) and Albania. Its area is 150 square miles (390 square km), but it reaches 205 square miles ...
Scylax Of Caryanda: ancient Greek explorer who was a pioneer in geography and the first Western observer to give an account of India.
Scylitzes, John: Byzantine historian, the author of a Synopsis historiarum dealing with the years 811-1057.
Scylla and Charybdis: in Greek mythology, two immortal and irresistible monsters who beset the narrow waters traversed by the hero Odysseus in his wanderings (later localized in the Strait of Messina). Scylla was ...
Scypha: genus of marine sponges of the class Calcispongiae (calcareous sponges), characterized by a fingerlike body shape known as the syconoid type of structure. In the syconoid sponges, each "finger," known ...
scythe: one of the most important of all agricultural hand tools, consisting of a curved blade fitted at an angle to a long, curved handle and used for cutting grain. In ...
scythebill: any of several birds of Central and South American tropical forests, belonging to the genus Campylorhamphus. The five species are woodcreepers (family Dendrocolaptidae, order Passeriformes), with long downcurved bills that ...
Scythian: . Centred on what is now the Crimea, the Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the 4th century BC ...
Scythian art: decorative objects, mainly jewelry and trappings for horse, tent, and wagon, produced by nomadic tribes that roamed Central Asia from slightly east of the Altai Mountains in Inner Mongolia to ...
Sdt, Anwar el-: Egyptian army officer and politician who was president of Egypt from 1970 until his death. He initiated serious peace negotiations with Israel, an achievement for which he shared the 1978 ...
sea anemone: any member of the invertebrate order Actiniaria (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria), primarily sedentary marine animals resembling flowers. They are found from the tidal zone of all oceans to depths of ...
sea bass: any of the numerous fishes of the family Serranidae (order Perciformes), most of which are marine and found in the shallower regions of warm and tropical seas. The family includes ...
sea buckthorn: (Hippophae rhamnoides, family Elaeagnaceae), willowlike shrub growing to about 2.5 m (about 8 feet) high with narrow leaves that are silvery on the underside and globose, orange-yellow fruits about 8 ...
sea cave: cave formed in a cliff by wave action of an ocean or lake. Sea caves occur on almost every cliffed headland or coast where the waves break directly on a ...
sea cow: very large aquatic mammal, now extinct, that once inhabited nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea. Steller's sea cows were wiped out by hunters in the 18th ...
sea crayfish: any of several lobster species of the family Palinuridae. See lobster.
sea cucumber: any of the 1,100 species of marine invertebrates constituting the class Holothuroidea (or Holothurioidea) of the phylum Echinodermata. The soft, cylindrical body, 2 to 200 cm (about 34 inch to ...
sea fan: (Gorgonia), any of a genus of invertebrate marine animals of the order Gorgonacea (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria). It is a variety of coral composed of polyps, cylindrical sessile (attached) forms, ...
sea gooseberry: either of two cosmopolitan genera of invertebrate marine animals in the phylum Ctenophora: the Hormiphora and the Pleurobrachia. The genera, widely distributed in all the oceans, are represented by 90 ...
sea hare: any marine gastropod of the family Aplysiidae (subclass Opisthobranchia) that is characterized by a shell reduced to a flat plate, prominent tentacles (resembling rabbit ears), and a smooth or warty ...
sea hen: fish, a species of lumpsucker (q.v.).
sea horse: any of a number of species of small marine fishes of the family Syngnathidae (order Gasterosteiformes), found in warm seas. Sea horses are familiar animals, with their consecutive rings of ...
Sea Islands: low-lying chain of sandy islands off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, U.S., between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns rivers and along the Atlantic Intracoastal ...
sea kale: (Crambe maritima), cabbagelike perennial plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to seashores and cliffs of Eurasia. Young or blanched leaves are cooked and eaten. The waxy, blue-green, coarsely toothed ...
Sea Lake: town, Mallee district, northwest Victoria, Australia, on the south shore of Lake Tyrrell (a salt-encrusted depression). The site was discovered in 1838 and was named by an early settler of ...
sea lettuce: (Ulva), any member of a genus of green algae usually found growing between high and low tide marks on rocky shores of seas and oceans. Fragments may be washed ashore ...
sea level: position of the air-sea interface, to which all terrestrial elevations and submarine depths are referred. The sea level constantly changes at every locality with the changes in tides, atmospheric pressure, ...
sea lily: any crinoid marine invertebrate (phylum Echinodermata) in which the adult is fixed to the sea bottom by a stalk. The stalk is surmounted by a bulbous body with frondlike tentacles; ...
sea lion: any of five species of eared seals found primarily in Pacific waters. Sea lions are characterized by a coat of short, coarse hair that lacks a distinct undercoat. Except for ...
sea mouse: (Aphrodita), any of a genus of marine worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida), named for their mouselike appearance and behaviour.
sea pansy: any of certain marine animals of the sea pen (q.v.) group.
sea pen: any of the 300 species of the order Pennatulacea, colonial invertebrate marine animals of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria). The name sea pen derives from their resemblance to quill pens. ...
Sea People: any of the groups of aggressive seafarers who invaded eastern Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age, especially in the 13th century BC. They ...
sea power: means by which a nation extends its military power onto the seas. Measured in terms of a nation's capacity to use the seas in defiance of rivals and competitors, it ...
sea robin: any of the slim, bottom-dwelling fish of the family Triglidae, found in warm and temperate seas of the world. Sea robins are elongated fish with armoured, bony heads and two ...
sea rocket: any of about 17 species of plants constituting the genus Cakile, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to seashore regions of North America, Eurasia, western Asia, and Australia, and to ...
sea serpent: mythological and legendary marine animal that traditionally resembles an enormous snake. The belief in huge creatures that inhabited the deep was widespread throughout the ancient world. In the Old Testament ...
sea snake: any of 61 species of highly venomous marine snakes of the cobra family (Elapidae). There are two independently evolved groups: the true sea snakes (subfamily Hydrophiinae), which are related to ...
sea spider: any of the spiderlike marine animals comprising the class Pycnogonida (also called Pantopoda) of the phylum Arthropoda. Sea spiders walk about on the ocean bottom on their slender legs or ...
sea squirt: any member of the invertebrate class Ascidiacea (subphylum Urochordata, also called Tunicata), marine animals with some primitive vertebrate features. Sea squirts are fixed growing organisms resembling potatoes more than animals; ...
sea swallow: any of certain coastal tern species. See tern.
sea turtle or seaturtle: any of the marine turtles of the families Dermochelyidae (leatherback turtle) and Cheloniidae (green turtle, loggerhead, hawksbill, and ridley). Sea turtles, in adaptation to an aquatic life, have limbs modified ...
sea urchin: any of about 700 living species of echinoid marine invertebrates (phylum Echinodermata) with a globular body and a radial arrangement of organs, shown by five bands of pores running from ...
sea walnut: any member of a common genus (Mnemiopsis) of gelatinous, planktonic marine invertebrates of the class Tentaculata (phylum Ctenophora). The sea walnut resembles the sea gooseberry morphologically, but as in many ...
sea whip: any of several genera of corals of the order Gorgonacea (phylum Cnidaria), characterized by a long, whiplike growth and a variety of bright colours. The "whip" consists of a colony ...
Sea, Law of the: law codified in a treaty signed Dec. 10, 1982, by 117 nations (and two republics of the U.S.S.R., Belorussia and Ukraine) in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It represented an attempt to ...
sea-urchin cactus: any of the genus Echinopsis, family Cactaceae, about 30 species native to South America at medium elevations in desert shrublands or grasslands. Several species, but most especially the Easter lily ...
Seabiscuit: (foaled 1933), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in six seasons (1935-40) won 33 of 89 races and a total of $437,730, an American Thoroughbred record (broken 1942). His unlikely success proved ...
Seaborg, Glenn T.: American nuclear chemist best known for his work on isolating and identifying elements heavier than uranium. He was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Edwin Mattison McMillan). Element ...
Seabury, Samuel: first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Seacole, Mary: Jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers at the battlefront during the Crimean War.
seafloor spreading hypothesis: theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones, known collectively as the midocean ridge system, and spreads out laterally away from them. This idea played a pivotal role in ...
seafood: edible aquatic animals, excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Most nontoxic aquatic species are exploited for food by humans. Even those with toxic properties, such as certain ...
Seagram Company Ltd.: former Canadian corporation that was the world's largest producer and distributor of distilled spirits.