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name for several plants, among them black snakeroot (see bugbane), button snakeroot or blazing star, senega snakeroot (see milkwort), and white snaker...
(s pär´) (KEY) , ancient city of N Babylonia, on the Euphrates in present Iraq, 20 mi (32 km) SW of Baghdad. It was one of the capitals of Sargon an...
predominantly quartz mineral particles that are between sand size and clay size, i.e., between 1/16 and 1/256 mm (1/406 –1/6502 in.) in diameter. Si...
(s m n´ d z, s ´ s) (KEY) , c.556–468? B.C., Greek lyric poet, b. Ceos. At Athens for a time under the patronage of Hipparchus, he seems then to h...
(sl v ´k , sl vä´k ) (KEY) or the Slovak Republic, Slovak Slovensko (slô´v nskô) (KEY) , republic (1995 est. pop. 5,432,000), 18,917 sq mi (4...
(d n ´ güst´ mär ´ räf ´) (KEY) , 1804–60, French lithographer and illustrator; student of Charlet and of Gros. He attained an individual st...