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21Festuca arundinacea — Taxobox name = Festuca arundinacea image width = 250px regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Poales familia = Poaceae genus = Festuca species = F. arundinacea binomial = Festuca arundinacea binomial authority =… …
22amphidromous — Moving from fresh water to the sea, or vice versa, for nonreproductive purposes such as feeding …
23workers — n. pl. [A.S. worc, work] (ARTHROPODA) 1. An individual of the semisocial and eusocial Hymenoptera, nonreproductive, laboring caste. 2. In Isoptera, individuals which lack wings and possess reduced pterothorax, eyes and genital apparatus. 3. In… …
24algae — algal, adj. /al jee/, n.pl., sing. alga / geuh/. any of numerous groups of chlorophyll containing, mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms ranging from microscopic single celled forms to multicellular forms 100 ft. (30 m) or more long, distinguished… …
25fat — fatless, adj. fatlike, adj. /fat/, adj., fatter, fattest, n., v., fatted, fatting. adj. 1. having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person. 2. plump; well fed: a good, fat chicken. 3. consisting of or containing fat; greasy; oily:… …
26mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …
27orchid — /awr kid/, n. 1. any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers. Cf. orchid family. 2. the flower of any of these plants. 3. a bluish to reddish purple. [1835 45; < NL …
28plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …
29worker — /werr keuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that works. 2. a laborer or employee: steel workers. 3. a person engaged in a particular field, activity, or cause: a worker in psychological research; a worker for the Republican party. 4. Entomol. a. a… …
30reproductive behaviour — In animals, any activity directed toward perpetuation of a species. Sexual reproduction, the most common mode, occurs when a female s egg is fertilized by a male s sperm. The resulting unique combination of genes produces genetic variety that… …
