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   ear-shell
         n 1: any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus
               Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior
               [syn: {abalone}, {ear-shell}]

English Dictionary: Eriocaulon by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ercilla
n
  1. a genus of evergreen climbers [syn: Ercilla, {genus Ercilla}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Erica lusitanica
n
  1. erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England
    Synonym(s): Spanish heath, Portuguese heath, Erica lusitanica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ericales
n
  1. Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae
    Synonym(s): Ericales, order Ericales
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
n
  1. French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925)
    Synonym(s): Satie, Erik Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eriocaulaceae
n
  1. chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts [syn: Eriocaulaceae, family Eriocaulaceae, pipewort family]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eriocaulon
n
  1. type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs
    Synonym(s): Eriocaulon, genus Eriocaulon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eriocaulon aquaticum
n
  1. aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers
    Synonym(s): pipewort, Eriocaulon aquaticum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
erose leaf
n
  1. a leaf having a jagged margin as though gnawed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ear-shell \Ear"-shell`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus {Haliotis}; --
      called also {sea-ear}. See {Abalone}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ergal \Er"gal\, n. [G., fr. Gr. [?] work.] (Physics)
      Potential energy; negative value of the force function.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ericolin \E*ric"o*lin\, n. (Chem.)
      A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the
      {Ericace[91]}), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous
      mass.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Erose \E*rose"\, a. [L. erosus, p. p. See {Erode}.]
      1. Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.
  
      2. (Bot.) Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or
            gnawed. -- {E*rose"ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Euroclydon \Eu*roc"ly*don\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; [?] the
      southeast wind + [?] wave, billow; according to another
      reading, [?], i. e. a north-east wind, as in the Latin
      Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]
      A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the
      Mediterranean. See {Levanter}.
  
               A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.      --Acts xxvii.
                                                                              14.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Euroclydon
      south-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the
      Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was
      wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14; R.V., "Euraquilo,"
      i.e., north-east wind). It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e.,
      as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon. It is
      the modern Gregalia or Levanter. (Comp. Jonah 1:4.)
     
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