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epistle
epistle , in the Bible, a letter of the New Testament. The Pauline Epistles (ascribed to St. Paul) are Romans , First and Second Corinthians , Galatians , Ephesians , Philippians , Colossians , First and Second Thessalonians , First and Second Timothy , Titus , Philemon , and Hebrews . Th...
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subspecies
subspecies also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species . See also classification .
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taxon
taxon (pl. taxa), in biology, a term used to denote any group or rank in the classification of organisms, e.g., class, order, family.
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Bryozoa
Bryozoa , name of a phylum, in older systems of classification, that included the invertebrate animals now classified in the phyla Entoprocta and Ectoprocta . The term bryozoan (or moss animal) is still commonly used for members of the Ectoprocta.
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Johan Christian Fabricius
Johan Christian Fabricius , 1745-1808, Danish entomologist. Influenced by the methods of Linnaeus, under whom he studied, he devised a system of classification of insects based on mouth structure. He taught at the Univ. of Kiel from 1775.
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Hamitic languages
Hamitic languages subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages. See Afroasiatic languages .
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Adolf Engler
Adolf Engler , 1844-1930, German botanist. He emphasized the importance of geological history in the study of plant geography, and worked out an influential system of plant classification. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin and director of the botanical gardens (1889-1921) there, he founded and edit...
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anthropometry
anthropometry , technique of measuring the human body in terms of dimensions, proportions, and ratios such as those provided by the cephalic index . Once the standard approach to racial classification and comparing humans to other primates, the technique is now used for deciding the range of clothi...
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Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin , 1560-1624, Swiss botanist and doctor of medicine, of French descent. His early classification of plants by genus and species in his chief work, the Pinax theatri botanici (1623), anticipated the binomial arrangement of Linnaeus. Bauhin reformed anatomical nomenclature, especially ...
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Torbern Olof Bergman
Torbern Olof Bergman , 1735-84, Swedish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. A professor at the Univ. of Uppsala from 1758, he developed a theory of chemical affinity, made improvements in the methods of chemical analysis and in the classification of rocks, and did important research in crystallogr...
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