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(Encyclopedia) grasshopper, name applied to almost 9,000 different species of singing, jumping insects in two families of the order Orthoptera. Grasshoppers are long, slender, winged insects with…ground squirrel
(Encyclopedia) ground squirrel, name applied to certain terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family. In North America the name refers to members of the genus Citellus and sometimes to the closely…tapir
(Encyclopedia) tapirtapirtāˈpər [key], nocturnal, herbivorous mammal, genus Tapirus, of the jungles of Central and South America and SE Asia. The tapir is somewhat piglike in appearance; however, it…sunbird
(Encyclopedia) sunbird, common name for tropical, Old World birds, including more than one hundred species in the family Nectariniidae. Like the unrelated New World hummingbirds, to which sunbirds…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.myrtle
(Encyclopedia) myrtle, common name for the Myrtaceae, a family of shrubs and trees almost entirely of tropical regions, especially in America and Australia. The family is characterized by leaves (…laurel, in botany
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Sassafras, Sassafras albidum, a member of the laurel family laurel, common name for the Lauraceae, a family of forest trees and shrubs found mainly in tropical SE Asia but also…plum, in botany
(Encyclopedia) plum, common name for a tree of any of many species of the genus Prunus of the family Rosaceae (rose family) and for its fruit, a drupe. The plum is generally cultivated in the…Brachiopoda
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Internal anatomy of a lamp shell, Magellania, representative of the phylum Brachiopoda BrachiopodaBrachiopodabrākēŏpˈədə [key], phylum of shelled sessile or sedentary marine…Trending
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