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Greek κόκκος (kókkos), berry, seed Streptococcus: col-, colo-, colono-colon: Greek κόλον (kólon) colonoscopy: colp-of or pertaining to the vagina Greek κόλπος (kólpos), bosom, womb; hollow, depth colposcopy: com-with, together Latin cum: communicate contra-against Latin contrā: contraindication: cor-with, together Latin cor ...
Ötzi, also called The Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German: [œtsi]) at the Austria–Italy border. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic ...
The seeds and seed heads of this common garden weed may contain the alkaloids temuline and loliine. Some experts also point to the fungus ergot or fungi of the genus Endoconidium, both of which grow on the seed heads of rye grasses, as an additional source of toxicity. [128] Lupinus spp. lupin, lupine Fabaceae: Some varieties have edible seeds.
RuneScape. RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001. RuneScape was originally a browser game built with the Java programming language; it was largely replaced by a standalone C++ client in 2016.
The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural: pedes) or Roman foot. Investigation of its relation to the English foot goes back at least to 1647, when John Greaves published his Discourse on the Romane foot. Greaves visited Rome in 1639, and measured, among other things, the foot measure on the tomb of Titus Statilius Aper ...
This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term " spacecraft " is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault ( Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [ 5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world.
Calabash ( / ˈkæləbæʃ /; [ 2] Lagenaria siceraria ), also known as bottle gourd, [ 3] white-flowered gourd, [ 4] long melon, birdhouse gourd, [ 5] New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, [ 6] and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to ...