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Cover , cov·er / ˈkəvər/ • v. [tr.] 1. (often be covered) put something such as a cloth or lid on top of or in front of (something) in order to protect or co… Operculum , operculum
1. In animals, a lid or cover, sometimes hinged, occurring, for example, in some cylindrical rugose corals, some bryozoans, and in gastropo… thatch , thatch / [unvoicedth]ach/ • n. a roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material. ∎ straw or a similar material used for such a cov… Buried soil , buried soil Soil covered by an alluvial, colluvial, aeolian, glacial, or organic deposit, and that is a product of a former period of pedogenesis. In… Cover-sociability Scale , cover-sociability scale A method for recording vegetation, devised by Braun-Blanquet, in which two scales are combined. The first describes the numbe… sconce , sconce / skäns/ • n. 1. a candle holder, or a holder of another light source, that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket. 2. a flaming tor…
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