10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOURDLIKE»
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1
Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
When Nahua natives sought a new territory in which to establish themselves,
they would therefore look for a deep gourdlike ravine in the mountains with rich
lacustrine flora and fauna, close to springs gushing from some imaginary
gourdlike ...
2
Paths of the Christian Mysteries: From Compostela to the New ...
Many musicologists claim that this gourdlike object was used to strum the strings;
however, it would have been a little awkward to create a tone in that way. With
the sixteenth figure, there is also a figure-of-eight fiddle that has three strings.
Virginia Sease, Manfred Schmidt-Brabant, 2003
3
California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
recognition at a glance Vines with tendrils and unisexual flowers; female flowers
with an inferior ovary that ripens into a exploding capsule or gourdlike pepo.
vegetative features Monoecious, perennial vines with curled tendrils, rounded,
often ...
4
Women, Myth, and the Feminine Principle
Immediately — and miraculously — the tree bore gourdlike fruit. His body was
buried in the ground next to that of Seven Hunahpu, beneath the Place of Ball
Game Sacrifice (113).6 The fruit miraculously born from One Hunahpu's head ...
Bettina Liebowitz Knapp, 1998
5
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Genus TriasBooampe Dumitrica, Kozur, and Mostler, 1980 Type species—
Triassocampe scalaris Dumitrica, Kozur, and Mostler, 1980 Remarks—
Triassocampe differs from Yeharaia Nakaseko and Nishimura, 1979, by lacking
the gourdlike ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1988
The earliest additions are: the American cucurbitas (I follow Liberty Hyde Bailey
in his use of “cucurbits” to refer to the whole tribe, Cucurbitaceae, and of “
cucurbitas” for the American representatives of the group.) that look gourdlike
and can be ...
7
Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona
Fruits gourdlike, hard-shelled, not spiny, at maturity 4 cm. in diameter or larger,
many-seeded; stems prostrate or trailing, with short, relatively stout, few-coiled
tendrils; leaves large; corolla yellow (2). 2. Leaf blades reniform, wider than long,
...
Thomas Henry Kearney, Robert Hibbs Peebles, 1942
8
A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas: And Adjacent States
12) When nesting on barns, Cliff Swallow builds gourdlike nest outside, beneath
eaves; Barn Swallow builds open nest, usually, but not always, inside the harn.
Voice: A low chur. Alarm note, keer. Song, creaking notes followed by guttural ...
Roger Tory Peterson, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
Fruits gourdlike, hard-shelled, at maturity 4 cm. in diameter or larger, not spiny,
many- seeded; stems prostrate or trailing, with short, relatively stout, few-coiled
tendrils. Leaves large; corolla yellow (2). 1. Fruit not gourdlike or hard-shelled, ...
Thomas Henry Kearney, Robert Hibbs Peebles, 1960
10
Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce
Pakets kongo have a gourdlike shape with a globular body and a slender "stem";
some have "arms" that give them an anthropomorphic look. The herbs and other
ingredients inside the body are wrapped in silk, bound with ribbons secured ...
Carolyn Morrow Long, 2001
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOURDLIKE»
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gourdlike is used in the context of the following news items.
Secrets of winter squash revealed
But acorns, delicatas, all the gnarly gourdlike things that arrive in fall and last through winter struck me more as table decorations than ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jan 15»
Visit Fort Myers' own botanical garden
The calabash tree's mushroom-smelling flowers and gourdlike fruit grow from the trunk too, giving the tree a surprisingly lumpy profile. And the ... «The News-Press, Jun 14»
Paintbrush diplomacy
... in which Bush has severely truncated Uribe's bent arm and painted his hand as a gourdlike claw. Almost certainly without being aware of it in ... «Al Jazeera America, Apr 14»
Cupid's Undie Run in Orlando raises money for a good cause
... about 1 in every 3,500 children, will develop learning disabilities, cancer, paralysis, hearing loss, brain tumors and bumpy, gourdlike skin. «Orlando Sentinel, Feb 14»
Disputing the Origins of Four-Legged Treasures
The artist Ruth Asawa, who died in August, at 87, wove wire into gourdlike abstract sculptures. She lived to see her market boom. In the past ... «New York Times, Jan 14»
'The Salon: Art & Design,' a Wide Range at Park Avenue Armory
Also here: a small gourdlike, lusciously glazed ceramic jar from 1892-93 by the French Art Nouveau s master Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat with a ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
L. Kent Wolgamott: "Touch the Earth" — 1000 years of Native pottery …
So do a pair of Casas Grandes pieces — a human effigy of a “Rattlesnake Man” and a depiction of a “Dove” on a gourdlike jar that date to 1200 ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Oct 13»
Richmond garden tour pairs lovely landscapes with artists ' work
Dobbins' pieces range in style from gourdlike vases glazed in jewel colors to classic baking dishes and bowls. This is not Dobbins' first year ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jun 13»
Inside the new Jonathan Adler store in West Ave
There are gourdlike vases, hands making the peace sign turned into bookends, sculptures of sharks and unicorns and striped canisters ... «Houston Chronicle, Apr 13»
Exhibit Review | Sherrie Gallerie: Glasswork to treasure crafted by a …
The carved textures, bold primaries, matte earth tones and organic gourdlike shapes of African instruments and sculpture are seen in pieces ... «Columbus Dispatch, Apr 12»
