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   Eira barbara
         n 1: long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South
               America [syn: {tayra}, {taira}, {Eira barbara}]

English Dictionary: Eriophorum by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eriophorum
n
  1. cotton grass
    Synonym(s): Eriophorum, genus Eriophorum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eriophorum angustifolium
n
  1. having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
    Synonym(s): common cotton grass, Eriophorum angustifolium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eurafrican
adj
  1. relating to or coming from Europe and Africa
n
  1. a person of mixed European and African descent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ear-bored \Ear"-bored`\, a.
      Having the ear perforated.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ear-piercer \Ear"-pier`cer\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The earwig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hare's-tail \Hare's"-tail`\ (-t[amac]l`), n. (Bot.)
      A kind of grass ({Eriophorum vaginatum}). See {Cotton grass},
      under {Cotton}.
  
      {Hare's-tail grass} (Bot.), a species of grass ({Lagurus
            ovatus}) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eurafric \Eur*af"ric\, Eurafrican \Eur*af"ri*can\, a. [Europe +
      Afric, African.]
      1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents
            of Europe and Africa combined.
  
      2. (Zo[94]geography) Pert. to or designating a region
            including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the
            Sahara.
  
      3. Of European and African descent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eurafric \Eur*af"ric\, Eurafrican \Eur*af"ri*can\, a. [Europe +
      Afric, African.]
      1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents
            of Europe and Africa combined.
  
      2. (Zo[94]geography) Pert. to or designating a region
            including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the
            Sahara.
  
      3. Of European and African descent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muskwood \Musk"wood`\, n. [So called from its fragrance.] (Bot.)
            (a) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family
                  ({Moschoxylum Swartzii}).
            (b) The wood of an Australian tree ({Eurybia argophylla}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pelican \Pel"i*can\, n. [F. p[82]lican, L. pelicanus, pelecanus,
      Gr. [?], [?], [?], the woodpecker, and also a water bird of
      the pelican kind, fr. [?] to hew with an ax, akin to Skr.
      para[cced]u.] [Written also {pelecan}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus
            {Pelecanus}, of which about a dozen species are known.
            They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is
            attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily
            stored.
  
      Note: The American white pelican ({Pelecanus
               erythrorhynchos}) and the brown species ({P. fuscus})
               are abundant on the Florida coast in winter, but breed
               about the lakes in the Rocky Mountains and British
               America.
  
      2. (Old Chem.) A retort or still having a curved tube or
            tubes leading back from the head to the body for
            continuous condensation and redistillation.
  
      Note: The principle is still employed in certain modern forms
               of distilling apparatus.
  
      {Frigate pelican} (Zo[94]l.), the frigate bird. See under
            {Frigate}.
  
      {Pelican fish} (Zo[94]l.), deep-sea fish ({Eurypharynx
            pelecanoides}) of the order {Lyomeri}, remarkable for the
            enormous development of the jaws, which support a large
            gular pouch.
  
      {Pelican flower} (Bot.), the very large and curiously shaped
            blossom of a climbing plant ({Aristolochia grandiflora})
            of the West Indies; also, the plant itself.
  
      {Pelican ibis} (Zo[94]l.), a large Asiatic wood ibis
            ({Tantalus leucocephalus}). The head and throat are
            destitute of feathers; the plumage is white, with the
            quills and the tail greenish black.
  
      {Pelican in her piety} (in heraldry and symbolical art), a
            representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her
            breast in order to nourish her young with her blood; -- a
            practice fabulously attributed to the bird, on account of
            which it was adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer, and of
            charity.
  
      {Pelican's foot} (Zo[94]l.), a marine gastropod shell of the
            genus {Aporrhais}, esp. {Aporrhais pes-pelicani} of
            Europe.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   EREW PRAM
  
      exclusive read, exclusive write {PRAM}.
  
  
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