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indented, jagged, serrated: jícama, Pachyrhizus erosus; serrated hinge-back tortoise, Kinixys erosa: erosus – erosa – erosum: erythro-G แผρυθρฯς (eruthrós) red [3] spotted redshank, Tringa erythropus; dog's-tooth violet, Erythronium dens-canis: All pages with titles beginning with Erythro: esculentus: L: edible: edible frog ...
A synonym of catkin. amphitropous (of an ovule) Bent so that both ends are near each other. Contrast anatropous, campylotropous, and orthotropous. amplexicaul With the base dilated and clasping the stem, usually of leaves. amylum star a vegetative propagative body filled with starch (amylum) and located around the lower nodes of certain ...
A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular. In geometry , this pattern is described as a skew apeirogon .
Broken Arrow (nuclear), an accidental nuclear event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war "Broken Arrow", a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun
Samurai archer shooting a kabura-ya over the Azuchi. Kabura-ya (้็ข, lit. 'turnip[-headed] arrow') is a type of Japanese arrow used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. . Kabura-ya were arrows which whistled when shot [1] and were used in ritual archery exchanges before formal medieval ba
[6] [7] In addition, Bane's testing demonstrated that a bodkin point arrow would also be able to penetrate plate armor of minimum thickness (1.2 mm), although likely not lethally. [6] However, the arrowheads used in the Bane test were made of steel, while research by the Royal Armouries and the Historical Metallurgy Society suggests that a ...
In the field of mineralogy, fracture is the texture and shape of a rock's surface formed when a mineral is fractured.Minerals often have a highly distinctive fracture, making it a principal feature used in their identification.
A Turk's head couped in the arms of the Hungarian town Komádi.. The heads of humans and other animals are frequently occurring charges in heraldry.The blazon, or heraldic description, usually states whether an animal's head is couped (as if cut off cleanly at the neck), erased (as if forcibly ripped from the body), or cabossed (turned affronté without any of the neck showing).