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Aplacental
Aplacental Ap`la*cen"tal, a. [Pref. a- + placental.]
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
Aplacentata
Aplacentata Ap`la*cen*ta"ta, n. pl. [Pref. a- not + placenta.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Mammals which have no placenta.
Bucentaur
Bucentaur Bu*cen"taur, n. [Gr. boy^s ox + ke`ntayros centaur.]
1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
2. [It. bucentoro.] The state barge of Venice, used by the
doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
Centage
Centage Cent"age, n.
Rate by the hundred; percentage.
CentalCental Cen"tal, n. [L. centum a hundred.]
A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many
parts of the United States a Hundredweight. CentalCental Cen"tal, n.
Relating to a hundred.
Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the
cental, or hundredweight. Cental systemCental Cen"tal, n.
Relating to a hundred.
Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the
cental, or hundredweight. Centare
Centare Cen"tare`, n. [F. centiare; centi- (L. centum) +
-are.]
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square
meter, or about 11/5 square yards.
Centaur
Centaur Cen"taur, n. [L. centaurus, Gr. ?.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous being, represented as half man
and half horse.
2. (Astron.) A constellation in the southern heavens between
Hydra and the Southern Cross.
CentaureaCentaurea Cen`tau*re"a, n. [NL. See Centaury.] (Bot.)
A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles
and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea
Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa). Centaurea behenBehen Be"hen, Behn Behn, n. [Per. & Ar. bahman, behmen, an
herb, whose leaves resemble ears of corn, saffron.] (Bot.)
(a) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
(b) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called
Silene inflata.
(c) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender. Centaurea cyanusBluebottle Blue"bot`tle, n.
1. (Bot.) A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain
fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped
flowers.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly
(Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue. Centaurea CyanusCentaurea Cen`tau*re"a, n. [NL. See Centaury.] (Bot.)
A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles
and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea
Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa). Centaurea CyanusCornflower Corn"flow`er (-flou`?r), n. (Bot.)
A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in
grainfields. Centaurea moschataSweet Sweet, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr,
s[oe]tr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,
and plains. --Milton.
5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-top.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (M. odorata) growing
in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet
flag, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur (Petasites
sagittata) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub
(Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch
myrtle. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree (Liquidambar
styraciflua). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zo["o]l.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea
Ageratum) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous
ether, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant (Centaurea
moschata), also, the yellow-flowered (C. odorata); --
called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also
sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. Centaurea nigraIronheads I"ron*heads`, n. (Bot.)
A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called
from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball
fixed on a long handle. --Dr. Prior. Centaurea nigraKnapweed Knap"weed`, n. (Bot.)
The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the
knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed. Centaurea nigraMatfelon Mat"fel*on, n. [W. madfelen.] (Bot.)
The knapweed (Centaurea nigra). Centaurea solstitialis Blazing star, Double star, Multiple star, Shooting
star, etc. See under Blazing, Double, etc.
Nebulous star (Astron.), a small well-defined circular
nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star.
Star anise (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; -- so
called from its star-shaped capsules.
Star apple (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Chrysophyllum
Cainito), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a
silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike
fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when
cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of
about sixty species, and the natural order
(Sapotace[ae]) to which it belongs is called the
Star-apple family.
Star conner, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an
astronomer or an astrologer. --Gascoigne.
Star coral (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of stony
corals belonging to Astr[ae]a, Orbicella, and allied
genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and
contain conspicuous radiating septa.
Star cucumber. (Bot.) See under Cucumber.
Star flower. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus Ornithogalum;
star-of-Bethlehem.
(b) See Starwort
(b) .
(c) An American plant of the genus Trientalis
(Trientalis Americana). --Gray.
Star fort (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with
projecting angles; -- whence the name.
Star gauge (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points
projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of
different parts of the bore of a gun.
Star grass. (Bot.)
(a) A small grasslike plant (Hypoxis erecta) having
star-shaped yellow flowers.
(b) The colicroot. See Colicroot.
Star hyacinth (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus Scilla
(S. autumnalis); -- called also star-headed hyacinth.
Star jelly (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants
(Nostoc commune, N. edule, etc.). See Nostoc.
Star lizard. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stellion.
Star-of-Bethlehem (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant
(Ornithogalum umbellatum) having a small white starlike
flower.
Star-of-the-earth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Plantago
(P. coronopus), growing upon the seashore.
Star polygon (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other
so as to form a star-shaped figure.
Stars and Stripes, a popular name for the flag of the
United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal
stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in
a blue field, white stars to represent the several States,
one for each.
With the old flag, the true American flag, the
Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the
chamber in which we sit. --D. Webster.
Star showers. See Shooting star, under Shooting.
Star thistle (Bot.), an annual composite plant (Centaurea
solstitialis) having the involucre armed with radiating
spines.
Star wheel (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of
ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions
of some machines.
Star worm (Zo["o]l.), a gephyrean.
Temporary star (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly,
shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears.
These stars are supposed by some astronometers to be
variable stars of long and undetermined periods.
Variable star (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies
periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes
irregularly; -- called periodical star when its changes
occur at fixed periods.
Water star grass (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Schollera
graminea) with small yellow starlike blossoms. Centauromachy
Centauromachy Cen`tau*rom"a*chy, n. [Gr. ?; ? centaur + ?
battle.] (Ancient Art)
A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for
relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.
CentauryCentaury Cen"tau*ry, n. [L. centaureum and centauria, Gr. ?,
?, and ?, fr. the Centaur Chiron.] (Bot.)
A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is
usually given to the Eryther[ae]a Centaurium and the
Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the
whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated
Centaurea. Erytheraea CentauriumCentaury Cen"tau*ry, n. [L. centaureum and centauria, Gr. ?,
?, and ?, fr. the Centaur Chiron.] (Bot.)
A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is
usually given to the Eryther[ae]a Centaurium and the
Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the
whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated
Centaurea. HippocentaurHippocentaur Hip`po*cen"taur, n. [L. hippocentaurus, Gr. ?;
"i`ppos horse + ? centaur.] (Myth.)
Same as Centaur. Implacental
Implacental Im`pla*cen"tal, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes. -- n. A
mammal having no placenta.
ImplacentaliaImplacentalia Im`pla*cen*ta"li*a, n. pl. [NL. See In- not,
and Placental.] (Zo["o]l.)
A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes
and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed. Multicental developmentMulticentral Mul`ti*cen"tral, a. [Multi- + central.]
Having many, or several, centers; as, a multicentral cell.
Multicental development (Biol.), growth, or development,
from several centers. According as the insubordination to
a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant
organism will be more or less irregular in form and may
even discontinuous. PercentagePercentage Per*cent"age, n. [Per cent + -age, as in average.
See Per, and Cent.] (Com.)
A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of
interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. PlacentaPlacenta Pla*cen"ta, n.; pl. L. Placent[ae], E. Placentas.
[L., a cake, Gr. ? a flat cake, from ? flat, fr. ?, ?,
anything flat and broad.]
1. (Anat.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus
with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the
afterbirth.
Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed
from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular
villi on its surface penetrate the blood vessels of the
parental uterus, and thus establish a nutritive and
excretory connection between the blood of the fetus and
that of the parent, though the blood itself does not
flow from one to the other.
2. (Bot.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules
or seeds are attached. PlacentaePlacenta Pla*cen"ta, n.; pl. L. Placent[ae], E. Placentas.
[L., a cake, Gr. ? a flat cake, from ? flat, fr. ?, ?,
anything flat and broad.]
1. (Anat.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus
with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the
afterbirth.
Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed
from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular
villi on its surface penetrate the blood vessels of the
parental uterus, and thus establish a nutritive and
excretory connection between the blood of the fetus and
that of the parent, though the blood itself does not
flow from one to the other.
2. (Bot.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules
or seeds are attached.
Meaning of CENTA from wikipedia
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Centa may
refer to:
Čenta, Serbia, a
village Centa,
Velike Lašče, Slovenia, a
settlement Antonio Centa (1907–1979),
Italian actor Centa (river), Italian...
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Manuela Di
Centa, OLY (born 31
January 1963) is an
Italian former cross-country
skier and
Olympic athlete. She is the
sister of
former cross-country skier...
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Čenta (Serbian Cyrillic: Чента; Hungarian: Csenta) is a
village located in the
Zrenjanin muni****lity, in the
Central Banat District of Serbia. It is...
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Antonio Centa (10
August 1907 – 19
April 1979) was an
Italian film actor. Born in Maniago,
Province of Pordenone,
Centa was
among the most
active and...
- Di
Centa is an
Italian surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Giorgio Di
Centa (born 1972),
Italian cross-country
skier Manuela Di
Centa (born...
- The 1
centas was a
Lithuanian coin. It has been
since replaced by the Euro.
Money portal Info
about 1
centas in
English v t e v t e...
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Giorgio Di
Centa (born 7
October 1972 in Tolmezzo,
Province of Udine) is an
Italian former cross-country
skier who won two gold
medals at the 2006 Winter...
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Centa Lothy Rek López (born 27
August 1954) is a
Bolivian novelist, politician, and
psychoanalyst who
served as
senator for
Santa Cruz from 2010 to 2015...
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opened in 2005
located at Manukau.
Another shopping centre,
Manukau Supa
Centa,
opened to the west of the city
centre in 1998.
Manukau Institute of Technology...
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Centa is a very
short Italian river in the
province of Savona. Its
source is near the
Italian village of Leca (Albenga), at the
junction between Arroscia...
