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A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
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Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. →
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An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown. →
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Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. →
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One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. →