Physical Geography - Softcover

Scott, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031491837X ISBN 13: 9780314918376

Publisher: West Publishing Co, 1999

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... GLOSSARY. A'hies. Lat. A fir-tree. Specific name of a tree. Aryssi'nica. Lat. Abyssinian; belonging or relating to Abyssinia. Aca'cia. Gr. ake, a point, and akios, not subject to worms: a thorny tree. A genus of the family Leguminosse and order Mimosae. About 300 species are enumerated; many of them yield gum. Aca'cia Ara'hica. Arabian acacia. Aca'cias. Trees belonging to the genus acacia. A'cid. A term given by chemists to those compound bodies which unite with salifiable bases to form salts: for example, a compound of sulphur and oxygen, called sulphuric acid, unites with magnesia and forms a salt named sulphate of magnesia, or Epsom salts. Aci'dulous. Sourish; possessing acid properties. Acrocho'rdt. Lat.: plural of acrochordus. Acrocho'hdus. From the Greek akrochordon, a wart. A genus of nonvenemous ophidians, whose bodies are entirely covered by scales resembling warts: these scales, or rather squamous tubercles, are small, numerous, rhomboidal, and surmounted by a small horn or point, more or less sharp. Abanso'nia. A genus of plants named in honor of Michel Adanson, a famous French botanist, born in 1727. Adanso'nia digila'ta. Sour gourd. Monkeys' bread or Baobab tree of Senegal, which is considered the largest or rather the broadest tree in the world. "Several measured by Adanson, were from sixty-eight to seventy-eight feet in circumference, but not extraordinarily high. The trunks were from twelve to fifteen feethigh,before they divided into many horizontal branches, which touched the ground at their extremities; these were from forty-five to fifty-five feetlong, and were so large that each branch was equal to a monstrous tree; and where the water of a neighboring river had washed away the earth, so as to leave the roots of one...

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• Publisher: West Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031491837X
• ISBN 13: 9780314918376
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 600