carnivorous plant
carnivorous plant (insectivorous plant) Any plant that supplements its supply of nitrates in conditions of nitrate deficiency by digesting small animals, especially insects. Such plants are adapted in various ways to attract and trap the insects and produce proteolytic enzymes to digest them. Venus' fly trap (
Dionaea), for example, has spiny-margined hinged leaves that snap shut on an alighting insect. Sundews (
Drosera) trap and digest insects by means of glandular leaves that secrete a sticky substance, and pitcher plants (families Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae) have leaves modified as pitchers into which insects fall, drowning in the water and digestive enzymes at the bottom.
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A 'monstrous book' after all? James Anthony Froude and the reception of Goethe's 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften' in nineteenth-century Britain.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...perceived to have shaped the ideas of James Anthony Froude's scandal-ridden religious...publicly burnt in Oxford in 1849. Froude, who was spectacularly forced...contributed to Novels and Tales, Froude refused to have his name attached...
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J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian...2005); pp. 340; US$30.00 hb. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), historian and man...future Tractarian. At Westminster School Froude was brutalised and robbed, at home...
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Books: The war of the words Sukhdev Sandhu regrets that the rediscovery of ex-colonial writers and peoples has led to vanity and verbiage; A Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Harvard University Press, pounds 15.99, 448pp
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/3/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Almost completely forgotten today, James Anthony Froude was one of the most famous historians...Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Froude's work celebrated the buccaneering...professor's scholarship. He labelled Froude a "negrophobic political hobgoblin...
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"Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...published in the past decade. James Pereiro has explored the concept...writings of John Keble, Hurrell Froude, and John Henry Newman, Pereiro...Tractarians, under the influence of James Anthony Froude, recoiled from the Reformation...
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142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...her favourites. For example, James Anthony Froude, whose unorthodoxy was not wholly...Nemesis of Faith, the only one of Froude's many books that he allowed...attacks upon the common foe than Froude's--has to share a chapter...
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Inequity quotient. ('The Bell Curve' by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/7/1994; 700+ words
; ...lived. The first quotation is from James Anthony Froude, an Oxford historian in the Victorian...antiwelfare guru Charles Murray. Froude was arguing for continued subjugation...the country to class war. As the Froude citation suggests, there is nothing...
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The succession and foreign policy: Simon Adams looks at the close connections between Elizabeth's ascendancy, her religion and her ensuing relationships with the states of Europe.(400th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth I)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...largely from them that the historian James Anthony Froude (1818-94) derived the negative...Spanish Armada (1856-70). Froude believed Elizabeth's reign to...a heroic age in spite of her. Froude's Elizabeth inspired a debate...
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John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Henry Hallam,Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, and Lord Macaulay all wrote histories...Century (1913), maintained that Froude was the first Englishman to use...Simancas through an agent before Froude. Secondly, Jones contends that...
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SO, MR SHAW, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF NEW ZEALAND?
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 1/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...records these strange encounters. Anthony Hubbard reports. SIR ARTHUR Conan...happened to visiting English novelist James Anthony Froude, for example, in 1884 at Auckland...two hours," Monin writes, "Froude asked for time to answer the questions...
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WE LOSE OUR IDENTITY WHEN WE LET FEAR TRIUMPH OVER HOPE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 10/13/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: ANTHONY B. ROBINSON Columnist THE OTHER 9...fear weakens judgment most." And James Anthony Froude, the English historian of the late...forgetting who we are and what we believe. Anthony Robinson's column appears Saturdays...
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James Anthony Froude
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Anthony Froude The English historian James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) specialized in Reformation...on Froude is Waldo Hilary Dunn, James Anthony Froude: A Biography (2 vols., 1961...
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Froude, J. A.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Froude, J. A. ( James Anthony Froude ) (1818–94), historian. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, he was an early casualty of the Oxford Movement, who lost his faith when his leader J. H. Newman reneged on the Church of England...
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