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One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. →
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An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale. →
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A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar. →
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An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. →