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  2. Antitoxin - Wikipedia

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    A vintage 1895 vial of diphtheria antitoxin.. An antitoxin is an antibody with the ability to neutralize a specific toxin.Antitoxins are produced by certain animals, plants, and bacteria in response to toxin exposure.

  3. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.

  4. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    River Waveney (the "ey" part of the name means "river") Winterbourne Stream, East Sussex, UK — bourne meaning a stream that only flows in winter. River Wissey (the "ey" part of the name means "river") Withlacoochee River, Withlacoochee probably comes from the Muskogean word meaning "little river." Bakkárholtsá in the Ölfus region of ...

  5. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Wikipedia

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    The prefix "po-" means along or at, and the base word "more" means sea, so that together "po more" means Land at the Sea. The German prefix "vor-" denotes a closer location; from the German point of view, this is the near part of Pomerania. [11] The full name in German is pronounced [ˈmeːklənbʊʁk ˈfoːɐ̯pɔmɐn].

  6. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    Search for titles containing the word or using the prefix: pachy-G παχύς (pakhús) thick, stout: Pachycephalosaurus: palaemon: G Παλαίμων (Palaímōn) Palaemon, a sea god whose name means "wrestler" Palaemon, crustacean genus; chequered skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon Palaemonias, Palaemonella and Palaemonetes, shrimp genera ...

  7. Rio Tinto (river) - Wikipedia

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    The river's chemistry begins to significantly change following the town of Niebla as the Rio Tinto blends itself with other streams that are connected to the Atlantic Ocean. [2] The river is approximately 100 km (62 mi) long and is located within the Iberian Pyrite Belt. [1] This area has large amounts of ore and sulphide deposits.

  8. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.