collective name

  • 101grex name — noun A common name for the collective (herd) of hybrids stemming from a given set of two (or more) commonly paired parent species Grex names are mainly used for orchids and bromeliads, which hybridize easily and are eagerly cultivated …

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  • 102Voice Of God Collective — A group led by guitarist Billy Jenkins, working mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. He used many of Britain s finest young jazz musicians, whom he plucked from obsurity while they rehearsed at Wood Wharf Studios in Greenwich, such as Django Bates,… …

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  • 103Shukar Collective —    The name given to an ad hoc group of Romanian musicians whose playing was remixed for the CD Urban Gypsy. Not to be confused with the Slovenian group Sukar …

    Historical dictionary of the Gypsies

  • 104multiple fruit — Collective Col*lect ive, a. [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the {collective} body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley. [1913 Webster] 2. Deducing… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 105Pléiade —    Collective name for a group of seven 16th century French po ets whose works mark the full development of Renaissance poetic style in France. The principal figure of this group, originally known as the brigade but renamed in 1553 after the… …

    Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

  • 106algae —   collective name for a group of chlorophyll containing plants, ranging in size from single cells to stems, including seaweeds and freshwater forms …

    Geography glossary

  • 107Laity — Collective name meaning the people i.e. members of the church apart from the ordained clergy …

    Dictionary of church terms

  • 108periventricular system — collective name for the efferent pathways of the hypothalamus that arise mainly in the supraoptic, posterior, and tuberal nuclei and descend in the periventricular gray matter …

    Medical dictionary

  • 109Maghreb —  Collective name for Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 110Jungle Novels — collective name given to B Traven’s books (see Hal Croves) …

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