(from the article "Anura") ...when in a resting position have bright colours or patterns on the flanks, groin, posterior surfaces of the thighs, and belly. For example, the South and Central American hylid Agalychnis calcarifer, when observed sleeping by day, is nothing more than a green bump on a leaf. The ...
any of about 30 species of lizards belonging to the family Agamidae (suborder Sauria). They are rather unspecialized lizards about 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 inches) long exhibiting little development of crests or dewlaps. They inhabit rocky desert areas throughout Africa, southeastern Europe, and central India. [1 Related Articles]
post-Vedic scripture conveying ritual knowledge and considered to have been revealed by a personal divinity. Shaivite scriptures, dating probably to the 8th century, are particularly so designated, in contrast to the Vaishnava Samhitas and the Shakta Tantras. (Compare Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism.) The Agamas are often in the form of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "agama") Agama agama, a common gray lizard with a red or yellow head, is well adapted to gardens and to the bush and grasslands. The hardun (A. stellio), which is common in northern Egypt, has a tail ringed with spiked scales, giving it a ferocious appearance.
(from the article "Yogacara") ...about the 2nd century AD but had its period of greatest productivity in the 4th century, during the time of Asanga and Vasubandha. Following them, the school divided into two branches, the Agamanusarino Vijnanavadinah ("Vijnanavada School of the Scriptural Tradition") and the Nyayanusarino...
(from the article "Dalen, Nils") In 1906 Dalen became chief engineer of the Gas Accumulator Company, which marketed acetylene gas. He became managing director of the company in 1909 and then invented Agamassan, a substance that absorbs acetylene, making it possible to concentrate the gas with no danger of explosion. He was blinded by an ...
in Greek legend, king of Mycenae or Argos. He was the son (or grandson) of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and his wife Aerope and was the brother of Menelaus. After Atreus was murdered by his nephew Aegisthus (son of Thyestes), Agamemnon and Menelaus took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta, ... [8 Related Articles]
lizard family composed of about 350 species in about 50 genera. Agamids typically have scaly bodies, well-developed legs, and a moderately long tail; average body size ranges from 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 inches), and the tail is 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 inches) long, though ...
(from the article "gamma globulin") ...of the other mammals, antibodies, when they are formed, occur in the gamma globulins. Persons who lack gamma globulin or who have an inadequate supply of it-conditions called, respectively, agammaglobulinemia and hypogammaglobulinemia-have frequently recurring infections because of their inability to develop adequate immunity to infectious diseases. See also antibody.
(from the article "Turkish literature") Another leading novelist born in the 1920s, Adalet Agaoglu, portrayed life from a more personal and introverted perspective than Kemal. She was one of the generation that suffered from the repression after the military coup d'etat in 1971, and she based some of her fiction on these experiences. Her novels ...
in the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God. The term necessarily extends to the love of one's fellow man. The Church Fathers used agape to designate both a rite (using bread and wine) and a meal of fellowship ... [2 Related Articles]
pope from 535 to 536. Of noble birth, he was an archdeacon at the time of his election (May 13, 535). At the urging of the Ostrogothic king Theodahad, he headed an unsuccessful mission to Constantinople to deter the emperor Justinian I from his plans to reconquer Italy. While there ... [2 Related Articles]
pope from 946 to 955. Elected on May 10, 946, with the support of Alberic II, he was a wise and pious administrator who endeavoured to restore ecclesiastical discipline. The chief events of his pontificate included the spread of Christianity in Denmark, the settlement of the dispute over the see ...
gelatin-like product made primarily from the algae Gelidium and Gracilaria (red seaweeds). Best known as a solidifying component of bacteriological culture media, it is used also in canning meat, fish, and poultry; in cosmetics, medicines, and dentistry; as a clarifying agent in brewing and wine making; as a thickening agent ... [6 Related Articles]
American actor (b. Jan. 31, 1921, Chicago, Ill.-d. April 7, 2002, Burbank, Calif.), first achieved fame when he married (1945) Shirley Temple but then became an actor and appeared with her in two films. After they divorced in 1949, he continued working in movies, at first appearing especially in westerns, ...
(from the article "Agaricales") ...fruiting bodies. Today, agarics are classified based on genetic relatedness, and thus they may or may not have gills, and fruiting bodies may or may not be mushroom-shaped. The best known family, Agaricaceae, has basidia located on gills. The familiar commercially grown mushroom is a representative example: its fruiting structure ...
order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota, kingdom Fungi). Traditionally, agarics were classified based on the presence of gills (thin sheets of spore-bearing cells, or basidia) and mushroom-shaped fruiting bodies. Today, agarics are classified based on genetic relatedness, and thus they may or may not have gills, and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "fungus") ...with fruiting bodies ranging from cup-shaped to cone-shaped; example genera include Dacrymyces, Calocera, and Guepiniopsis. Parasitic, pathogenic, symbiotic, or saprobic; most are terrestrial, with few aquatic members; all are mushroom-forming; parenthesomes imperforate or perforate...
(from the article "fungus") ...range in colour from cream to yellow, brown, or orange; conidia are globose to elliptical-shaped; example genus is Malassezia.Parasitic or symbiotic on plants, animals, and other fungi, some are saprobic or mycorrhizal; basidia may be undivided or have transverse or longitudinal...
(from the article "fungus") Parasitic or saprobic; simple-septate basidiomycetes; contains two orders.Mostly saprobic; fruiting body is septate, with uniform hyphae; some have slender basidiospores, which may germinate by budding and may be solitary or...
(from the article "fungus") Mycoparasitic; auricularoid basidia may contain mitospores; example genus is Naohidea. Parasitic or saprobic; simple-septate basidiomycetes; contains two orders.
(from the article "mushroom") ...any fleshy fungus fruiting structure. In a very restricted sense, mushroom indicates the common edible fungus of fields and meadows (Agaricus campestris). A very closely related species, A. bisporus, is the mushroom grown commercially and seen in markets.
(from the article "germination") ...controlled mass germination of cereal seeds supplies enzymes for the making of alcoholic beverages and for other industries as well. Spores of the commercially cultivated edible mushroom Agaricus brunescens are also mass germinated.
(from the article "Pericles") His Alcmaeonid mother, Agariste, provided him with relationships of sharply diminishing political value and her family curse, a religious defilement that was occasionally used against him by his enemies. A few days before Pericles' birth, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, Agariste dreamed she bore a lion. The symbolism, although ...
(from the article "India") ...British goods to English schools and college classrooms, and politically active Indians began to emulate the so-called "Indian Jesuits"-Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850-82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856-95), Tilak, and Gokhale-who were pioneers in the founding of indigenous educational institutions in the Deccan in the 1880s. The movement for national education...
town, capital of Tripura state, northeastern India, lying near the Bangladesh border in an intensively cultivated plain. Situated astride the Haroa River amid numerous villages, it is the commercial centre of the area. A maharaja's palace, a temple, and four colleges affiliated with the University of Calcutta are located there. ...
important mercantile caste in India, belonging to that group of merchants, bankers, landowners, and shopkeepers that are called Bania in northern and western India. According to caste tradition, its members are descended from a naga, or snake goddess; hence, they do not molest snakes, and they observe a special form ... [1 Related Articles]
For the first 10 years of his professional career, American tennis player Andre Agassi was the rock star of his sport. Besides racking up three Grand Slam titles and capturing the number one player ranking on several occasions, he charmed audiences with his flashy style and unusual antics, such as ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "San Francisco Peaks") three summits- Humphreys, Agassiz, and Fremont peaks-on the rim of an eroded extinct volcano 10 miles (16 km) north of Flagstaff on the Colorado Plateau in north-central Arizona, U.S. Humphreys Peak (12,633 feet [3,851 metres]) is the state's highest point, and from it places more than 150 miles (240 km) ...
marine zoologist, oceanographer, and mining engineer who made important contributions to systematic zoology, to the knowledge of ocean beds, and to the development of a major copper mine.
largest of the ice-margin lakes that once covered what are now parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan in Canada and North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States. It was present in the Pleistocene Epoch (approximately 1.8 million to 11,800 years ago) during the last two phases of the ... [4 Related Articles]
Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes. He achieved lasting fame through his innovative teaching methods, which altered the character of natural science education in the United States. [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hinduism") ...burned to ashes 60,000 princes who had dug their way to him. Another sage, Bhagiratha, brought the Ganges River down from heaven to sanctify their ashes and, in the process, created the ocean. Agastya, revered as the Brahman who brought Sanskrit civilization to South India, drank and digested the ocean. ...
common semiprecious silica mineral, a variety of chalcedony (q.v.) that occurs in bands of varying colour and transparency. Agate is essentially quartz, and its physical properties are in general those of that mineral. See silica mineral (table). [2 Related Articles]
natural "depository" of an extinct animal community on the Niobrara River in northwestern Nebraska, U.S., 40 miles (64 km) north of Scottsbluff. The beds were laid down as sedimentary deposits about 20 million years ago (Miocene Epoch) and bear the remains of prehistoric mammals including Menoceras (two-horned ...
English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47), book reviewer for the Daily Express, novelist, essayist, diarist, and raconteur. He is remembered for his wit and perverse yet lovable personality, the sparkle and fundamental seriousness of his dramatic criticism, and his racy, entertaining diary, called, characteristically, Ego, 9 vol. ...
in pottery, 18th-century ware of varicoloured clay, with an overall marbled effect. It was sometimes called solid agate to distinguish it from ware with surface marbling. Agateware was probably introduced about 1730 by Dr. Thomas Wedgwood of Rowley's Pottery, Burslem, Staffordshire, Eng. The random mingling of coloured clays, such as ... [1 Related Articles]
legendary Christian saint and martyr, cited in the martyrology of St. Jerome, the Calendar of Carthage (c. 530), and other works. Palermo and Catania both claim to be her birthplace.
the genus of the dammar pines, 13 species of pinelike plants of the family Araucariaceae. Agathis species range from the Philippines to Australia and New Zealand. Elsewhere some are grown as ornamental plants in warm areas or in greenhouses. Several species yield hard resins or gums (including kauri copal, Manila ... [2 Related Articles]
pope from 678 to 681. A cleric well-versed in Latin and Greek, he was elected pope in June 678. He judged that St. Wilfrid, bishop of York, had been unjustly deprived and ordered his restoration, and he received the submission of Exarch Theodore of Ravenna, whose predecessors had aspired to ... [2 Related Articles]
tyrant of Syracuse, in Sicily, from 317 to c. 304 and self-styled king of Sicily after c. 304. A champion of Hellenism, he waged war unsuccessfully against Carthage. [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "alchemy") Zosimos credits these innovations mainly to Maria (sometimes called "the Jewess"), who invented the apparatus, and to Agathodaimon, probably a pseudonym. Neither is represented (beyond Zosimos' references) in the Venice-Paris manuscript, but a tract attributed to Agathodaimon, published in 1953, shows him to be preoccupied with the colour sequence and ...
Athenian tragic poet whose first victory at the festival of the Great Dionysia, in which plays were presented and judged, was gained in 416 BC. The event is made, by Plato, the occasion for his dialogue Symposium, and the banquet, which is the setting of the dialogue, is placed in ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tyche") ...poet Hesiod called her the daughter of the Titan Oceanus and his consort Tethys; other writers attributed her fatherhood to Zeus, the supreme god. She was also associated with the more beneficent Agathos Daimon, a good spirit, protective of individuals and families, and with Nemesis, who, as an abstraction, represented ...
(from the article "Sapindales") ...Asia and throughout the tropics. Melicope (about 150 species, including the former genus Pelea) occurs from Indo-Malaysia through Australia and New Zealand to the Pacific Islands. Agathosma (135 species) is endemic to South Africa. Boronia (about 100 species) is one of the largest endemic Australian genera. Haplophyllum (about 70 species) ...
an ancient people that settled in the northern and central Ethiopian Plateau; they are associated with the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the area. The term Agau also refers to any of several contemporaneous groups that are either culturally similar or linked by a Cushitic language base. The ... [1 Related Articles]
the agave family of the flowering plant order Liliales, consisting of about 22 genera and at least 720 species of short-stemmed, often woody plants distributed throughout tropical, subtropical, and temperate areas of the world. Members of the family have narrow, lance-shaped, sometimes fleshy or toothed leaves that are clustered at ... [2 Related Articles]
