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outrigger
outrigger canoe-type vessel with a wood or bamboo float attached to the side of the craft and extending out over the water. The term outrigger also refers to the float itself. The craft is used throughout the South Pacific, although its greatest development has probably come in Sri Lanka, where t...
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canoe
canoe , long, narrow watercraft with sharp ends originally used by most peoples. It is usually propelled by means of paddles, although sails and, more recently, outboard motors are also used.
The canoe varies in material according to locality and in design according to the use made of it. In No...
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boat
boat small, open nautical vessel propelled by sail, oar, pole, paddle, or motor. The use of the term boat for larger vessels, although common, is somewhat improper, but the line between boats and ships is not easy to draw. A number of special types of boat are generally referred to by their indiv...
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natural selection
natural selection (‘survival of the fittest’) A complex process in which the total environment determines which members of a species survive to reproduce and so pass on their genes to the next generation. This need not necessarily involve a struggle between organisms....
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selection
selection In Darwinism , the mechanism of natural selection is considered of major importance in the process of evolution . Popular formulations sometimes envisage a struggle for existence in which direct competition for mates or for various factors in the environment (e.g., food, water, and suit...
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carpentry
carpentry. 1. The trade of selecting, cutting, and joining timber for structural purposes. 2. Timber-work constructed by a carpenter: an assemblage of pieces of wood connected by means of joints, etc. It is distinct from joinery....
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Michael Field
Michael Field pseud. used by two English authors, Katherine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914, and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913, who collaborated on numerous literary works, including lyrics and poetic tragedies. Although their work was praised by such contemporaries as Robert Browning and Ge...
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George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry 1855-1930, American poet, critic, and teacher, b. Beverly, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1877. He was professor of English at the Univ. of Nebraska (1880-82) and at Columbia (1891-1904). Typical of his work as a minor poet is The Ideal Passion: Sonnets (1917). Besides much literar...
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inbreeding
inbreeding mating of closely related organisms. Inbreeding is chiefly used as a means of insuring the preservation of specific desired traits among the offspring of purebred animals (see breeding ). Continued inbreeding through many generations reduces the chances for diversity of characteristics ...
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Mark Strand
Mark Strand 1934-, American poet, b. Prince Edward Island, Canada. His poetry is noted for its confrontation with the surreal and irrational. His collections include Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Darker (1970), Selected Poems (1980), Blizzard of One (1998; Pulitzer Prize), and New Sel...
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