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  2. Persistence (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Many species of woody plants with persistent fruit provide an important food source for birds and other wildlife in winter. [3] The terms persistent and deciduous are not used in a consistent manner by botanists. Related terms such as long-persistent, generally deciduous, and caducous suggest that some plant parts are more persistent than ...

  3. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Compare persistent and fugacious. caespitose Tufted or turf-like, e.g. the growth form of some grasses and sedges. calcarate possessing a spur. calcareous A soil type or a lichen substrate rock type that is rich in or largely composed of calcium carbonate. calceolate Shaped like a slipper. [25] calcicole A plant which thrives in calcareous soil.

  4. Persistence - Wikipedia

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    Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population; Persistence (botany), describing plant parts that remain attached to the plant after completing their function; Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering; Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Persistence (discontinuity) - Wikipedia

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    A non-persistent discontinuity ends in intact soil or rock. Before movement of the material on both sides of a non-persistent discontinuity is possible, the discontinuity has to extend and break through intact material. As intact material has virtually always far higher shear strength than the discontinuity, a non-persistent discontinuity will ...

  7. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  8. Persistent world - Wikipedia

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    A persistent world can be achieved by developing and maintaining a single or dynamic instance state of the game world that is shared and viewed by all players around the clock. [ citation needed ] The persistence of a world can be subdivided into "game persistence", "world persistence" and "data persistence".

  9. Sea foam - Wikipedia

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    Sea foam washed up or blown onto a beach. Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. [1]