10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FILIPENDULOUS»
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Logodaedaly, Or Sleight-of-Words
Presents a collection of obsolete, quirky, and forgotten words in which entries are accompanied by fantasical stories and musings behind their meanings and usage.
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The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things
When it came to financial investments, Seymour made decisions based on
appeals to evidence and rejected fideism. FILIPENDULOUS (fil-i-PEN-dyoo-luhs)
: adj. from Latin filum (thread) mdpenduius (hanging): i. suspended by a thread; ii.
as ...
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Enumeratio ordinata molluscorum Gaulo-Melitensium, arranged ...
Near Fort Ricasoli. C. papillosum, Polii. Common. C. exiguum, Gm. Rare. On the
Viva latissima. .Costa, in his Corr. Zool., Naples, 1839, believes this Cardium to
be filipendulous (?) The examples found in Malta do throw Genus Venu3, L. ...
Giuseppe Mamo, Antonio Annetto Caruana, 1867
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A System of surgery :theoretical and practical
... consist- g of comparatively few, and sometimes almost mminated papilla;, or as
closely packed and .ultitudinous villous or filipendulous out- rowths, or as
densely massed 'cauliflower-like' Ifrlomerations of elongated and enlarged apilla;
, ...
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A system of surgery: theoretical and practical
... or as closely packed and multitudinous villous or filipendulous outgrowths, or
as densely massed 'cauliflower-like ' agglomerations of elongated and enlarged
papillae, rounded or flattened at their extremities. They most frequently, perhaps,
...
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Contributions to Botany: (v, 402, [30] p., plates 88-154)
The above characters, given by Von Martius, when thus transposed, render the
diagnosis more intelligible : a plant, the root of which is sometimes parasitic and
filipendulous, cannot be an erect shrub. The tuberous kind of root here described
...
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Wildlife, Murram & Bush: A Family Adventure
... rank grass was now a willowy spray of delicate, pink, bell-like blooms borne on
waving filipendulous stems. This bloom was as delicate in appearance as to
seem out of place in that strident environment, a case, perhaps, of beauty
beguiling.
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Contributions to Botany: Iconographic and Descriptive, ...
The above characters, given by Von Martius, when thus transposed, render the
diagnosis more intelligible : a plant, the root of which is sometimes parasitic and
filipendulous, cannot be an erect shrub. The tuberous kind of root here described
...
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The Grandiloquent Dictionary - Tenth Anniversary Edition
... Reliance upon one's religion instead or reason for beliefs and truths
fidimplicitary - A person who has implicit faith filiopietistic - The practice of
worshipping one's ancestors filipendulous - Suspended by a single thread
fimicoloud - Living in a ...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Seethe 2nd fili. fili (1):'son' (L fīlius)or 'daughter' (L fīlia): rareexcept in filicide (cf
cide).The moreusual c/f of fīliusisfilio, q.v. fili (2):'thread', from Lfīlum, a thread,sfīl,
perh akin to hīlum. Exx: filiferous, filiform,filigrane (and filigree), filipendulous.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FILIPENDULOUS»
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English Is Seldom at a Loss for Words
... borborygm, a growling in the stomach; laquearian, armed with a noose; filipendulous, hanging by a thread; eumoirous, lucky in being happily ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
C. Damien Arthur and Joni R. Magnusson: On education and …
The filipendulous system as we know it is in serious danger of privatization now that nearly 50 percent of total educational revenue is based on ... «Charleston Gazette, Nov 14»
