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larium
(wn) | Larium
n 1: an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine)
that is effective in cases that do not respond to
chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric
effects on some people [syn: mefloquine, {mefloquine
hydrochloride}, Larium, Mephaquine] |
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solarium
(encz) | solarium,solárium n: Zdeněk Brož |
Nidularium Karatas
(gcide) | Karatas \Ka*ra"tas\, n. (Bot.)
A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family ({Nidularium
Karatas}).
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Santalum pyrularium
(gcide) | Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
[,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr.
candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.)
(a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian
and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several
other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum
Freycinetianum} and Santalum pyrularium, the Australian
Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to
several other kinds of fragrant wood.
(b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields
sandalwood.
(c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for
dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
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False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of
the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, {Myoporum
tenuifolium} of Tahiti.
Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the
heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus
santalinus}, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also
red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and
rubywood.
[1913 Webster] Sandarach |
Solarium
(gcide) | Solarium \So*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Solaria. [L. See Solar, n.]
1. An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an
apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern
times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for
convalescents.
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2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of handsome marine
spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera.
The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep
umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also
perspective shell.
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Velarium
(gcide) | Velarium \Ve*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Velaria. [L., a covering.]
(Zool.)
The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the
Discophora.
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larium
(wn) | Larium
n 1: an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine)
that is effective in cases that do not respond to
chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric
effects on some people [syn: mefloquine, {mefloquine
hydrochloride}, Larium, Mephaquine] |
solarium
(wn) | solarium
n 1: a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure
to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch,
sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium] |
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