10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUCULIFORM»
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cuculiform in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cuculiform and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
... 52 Ctenomyidae 491 Ctenophora 223-224, 226 Ctenopilus elongatus 73
Ctenopominae 346 ctenosauriscid 61 Cubozoa 75, 234, 236 cuckoo 419
Cucujidae 280 Cucujiformia 288 Cucujoidea 280-281, 287 cuculiform 420
Cuculiformes 420 ...
S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar,
2009
2
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories
Lying there cuculiform, curled like a conch shell, absent the sound of any living
sea. For hours the storm raged around the house, battering and lashing the
windows with the malevolence of ancient enemies. And by morning, when light
crept ...
3
Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems ...
The hoatzin, for example, a South American bird of the family Opisthocomidae,
has features in common with both the galliform and cuculiform birds, and
Maximilian Furbringer (1846-192o) could depict this evolutionarily in 1888 by
showing the ...
Brian Scott Baigrie,
1996
4
The Lung-Air Sac System of Birds: Development, Structure, ...
(1982a), IPRS were completely lacking in the passeriform, columbiform,
cuculiform, and psittaciform species; absent or very thin in anseriform; and well
developed in charadriiform and galliform species. In the lungs of weak flyers and
flightless ...
5
Flora of the Galápagos Islands
Cucullate, cuculiform. Hood-shaped; hooded. Culm. The stem of a grass or
sedge, usually hollow except at the swollen nodes. Cultivar. A plant form that
originated in, and is maintained by, cultivation, as contrasted with plants growing
in the ...
Ira Loren Wiggins, Duncan M. Porter, Edward F. Anderson,
1971
6
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Ex: cuculiform. cucumi-: from L cucumis, a cucumber. Ex: cucumijbrm. culici-z
from culic-, o/s of L culex, a gnat, a mosquito, s cul-; cf the ('l) insect-suffix in cimex
, a (bed) bug, and pulex, a flea. (E 8: M); cf also the rhyming resemblance of cul-
to ...
7
Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun)
... auditory or visual effect (like the English expression "long, long, ago" or for that
matter, cucurbit, cucumber, a cuculiform and cucullated monk, or Humpty Dumpty
!). Lo maintains that reduplicated words like hun-tun, and its related vocabulary, ...
8
Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands: ...
... flowers clustered at the end of the branches, surrounded by an involucre of 6-
10apical leavesand long whitish or brownish hairs; pseudosepals 3.5-5 mm long,
ovate- triangular, somewhat unequal, acuminate, the apex apiculate- cuculiform;
...
Tert Res 3:83–87 Harrison CJO (1982a) Cuculiform, piciform and passeriform
birds in the Lower Eocene of England. Tert Res 4:71–81 Harrison CJO (1982b)
The earliest parrot: a new species from the British Eocene. Ibis 124: 203–210 ...
10
Salt Glands in Birds and Reptiles
... higher in many cases than in most marine birds. The North American
Roadrunner (Geococcyx califor- nianus), a cuculiform which lives in arid regions,
has recently o o (I 5(1 10(1 15(1 200 250 I MM. 222 Comparative and applied
physiology.
Malcolm Peaker, J. L. Linzell,
1975