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  2. Crocus - Wikipedia

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    The showy, salver to cup-shaped, single or clustered actinomorphic flowers taper off into a narrow tube; the flowers emerge from the ground, and can be white, yellow, lilac to dark purple, or variegated in cultivars. The flower tube is long, cylindrical and slender, expanding apically. The floral tube is long and narrow with 6 lobes in 2 whorls.

  3. Song of the Thin Man - Wikipedia

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    Nick gathers all the suspects by arranging a party on the reopened Fortune and announces that Buddy has fully recovered and that he will reveal the murderer's identity that night. It is Nora who notices the crucial clue: Amboy's wife shows up wearing a valuable necklace that matches the earrings owned by Mitchell Talbin's wife, Phyllis.

  4. Rappaccini's Daughter - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in Padua, Italy, in a distant and unspecified past, possibly in the sixteenth century, after the Paduan Botanical Garden had been founded. [1]Giovanni Guasconti, a young student recently arrived from Naples, Southern Italy, to study at the University of Padua, is renting a room in an ancient building that still exhibits the Coat of Arms of the once-great, long since extinct ...

  5. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Category:Lists of flowers - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of flowers. Lists of flowering plants belong in Category:Lists of plants. ... This page was last edited on 7 August 2024, at 06:28 (UTC).

  8. Gaillardia pulchella - Wikipedia

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    The branching stem of G. pulchella is hairy and upright, growing to 60 centimetres (24 inches) tall. [9] The leaves are alternate, mostly basal, 4–8 cm (1 + 5 ⁄ 8 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long, with edges smooth to coarsely toothed or lobed.

  9. Poiesis - Wikipedia

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    Heidegger referred to poiesis as a "bringing-forth", or physis as emergence. Examples of physis are the blooming of the blossom, the coming-out of a butterfly from a cocoon, and the plummeting of a waterfall when the snow begins to melt; the last two analogies underline Heidegger's example of a threshold occasion, a moment of ecstasis when something moves away from its standing as one thing to ...