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vorticism
vorticism , short-lived 20th-century art movement related to futurism . Its members sought to simplify forms into machinelike angularity. Its principal exponent was a French sculptor, Gaudier-Brzeska . The movement, however, had its largest following in England, where Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ja...
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Nematomorpha
Nematomorpha , small (about 230 species) phylum of pseudocoelomates ; the horsehair worms . Most are very slender, elongated creatures found in ponds and streams, whose larvae live as parasites in arthropods. They emerge as adults for a brief time, then mate and die. A small number are planktonic i...
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reptile
reptile name for the dry-skinned, usually scaly, cold-blooded vertebrates (see Chordata ) of the order Reptilia. Reptiles are found in a variety of habitats throughout the warm and temperate regions (except on some islands), with the greatest variety in the tropics. Reptiles differ from other terr...
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Abdera
Abdera or Avdira , town, NE Greece, in Thrace, near the mouth of the Mesta River. It is a small agricultural settlement. Founded (c.650 BC) by colonists from Clazomenae, it was destroyed by the Thracians (c.550 BC) and rebuilt (c.500 BC) by refugees from Teos. The town passed to Macedon in 352 B...
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fishing
fishing act of catching fish for consumption or display. Fishing—usually by hand, club, spear, net, and possibly by hook—was known to prehistoric people. It was practiced by the ancient Persians, Egyptians, and Chinese, and it is mentioned in the Odyssey and in the Bible. It is a majo...
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Les Six
Les Six , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant impressionism of French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the overwrought romanticism of Germans such as Richard Wagner and Richar...
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Senegambia
Senegambia , short-lived (1982-89) confederation of Senegal and The Gambia .
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Hivites
Hivites , in the Bible, peaceful tribe probably living in the vicinity of Jerusalem. They were crushed in the Hebrew occupation.
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Methuselah
Methuselah , in the Bible, descendant of Seth; son of Enoch. He is said to have lived 969 years. It is also spelled Mathusala.
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protoplasm
protoplasm Living contents of a plant or animal cell. It includes both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of cells....
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