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blister beetle

(Encyclopedia) blister beetle, common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common…

nightjar

(Encyclopedia) nightjar, common name for birds also known as goatsuckers.

code, in law

(Encyclopedia) code, in law, in its widest sense any body of legal rules expressed in fixed and authoritative written form. A statute thus may be termed a code. Codes contrast with customary law (…

nematode

(Encyclopedia) nematode, common name for any worm of the phylum Nematoda.

lamp shell

(Encyclopedia) lamp shell, common name for animals of the phylum Brachiopoda.

water clover

(Encyclopedia) water clover, common name for various species of aquatic ferns.

water fern

(Encyclopedia) water fern, common name for various species of aquatic ferns.

moss animal

(Encyclopedia) moss animal, common name applied to members of the phylum Ectoprocta.

comb jelly

(Encyclopedia) comb jelly, common name for transparent organisms of the phylum Ctenophora.

composite

(Encyclopedia) composite, alternate common name for Asteraceae or Compositae, the aster family.