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(j t) (KEY) , name for any plant of the genus Corchorus, tropical annuals of the family Tiliaceae (linden family), and for its fiber. Many species yie...
Kaw, river, 170 mi (274 km) long, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers in NE Kansas and flowing E to the Missouri River at K...
(käl´mär) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 30,820), capital of Kalmar co. (1995 pop. 144,060), SE Sweden, on the Kalmarsund (an arm of the Baltic Sea) oppos...
(kü´öst käl´lyô) (KEY) , 1873–1940, Finnish political leader. Of peasant background, he entered politics and was a vocal advocate of Finnish ...
(k n´tr w ts´´) (KEY) , 1918–, American surgeon. The son of a physician, Kantrowitz received his M.D. from Western Reserve Univ. (1943), returnin...
(k rä´ch ) (KEY) , city (1998 pop. 9,269,265), largest city and former capital of Pakistan, SE Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea near the Indus River del...