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Didunculus strigiostrisToothbill Tooth"bill`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus
strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for
its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct
dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible
has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is
chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and
manu-mea. F religiosaFicus Fi"cus, n. [L., a fig.]
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F.
Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Note: Ficus Indica is the banyan tree; F. religiosa, the
peepul tree; F. elastica, the India-rubber tree. Ficus religiosaPeepul tree Pee"pul tree` [Hind. p[=i]pal, Skr. pippala.]
(Bot.)
A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of
fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo
tree. [Written also pippul tree, and pipal tree.] Ficus religiosaBo tree Bo" tree` (Bot.)
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at
Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under
which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and
so to have become Buddha.
The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus
religiosa), which is planted close to every temple,
and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
(Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its
branches. --Tennent. Gossypium religiosumNankeen Nan*keen", n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin, in China.] [Written also nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium
religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker. Mantis religiosaPraying Pray"ing,
a. & n. from Pray, v.
Praying insect, locust, or mantis (Zo["o]l.), a mantis,
especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.
Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which
prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the
wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have
the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on
the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream. Religiosity
Religiosity Re*lig`i*os"i*ty (-l?j`?-?s"?-t?), n. [L.
religiositas: cf. F. religiosit?.]
The quality of being religious; religious feeling or
sentiment; religiousness. [R.] --M. Arnold.
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