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Bowenite
Bowenite Bow"en*ite, n. [From G.T. Bowen, who analyzed it in
1822.] (Min.)
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island.
It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
Owenia venosaSour Sour, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE.
sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r,
Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ.
surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.]
1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and
the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
--Bacon.
2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or
musty, turned.
3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish;
morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour
countenance.' --Swift.
He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that
loved him not, But to those men that sought him
sweet as summer. --Shak.
4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.' --Shak.
5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia
Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees
bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
Sour grapes. See under Grape.
Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo.
Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian
tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which
furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious;
crabbed; currish; peevish. Owenite
Owenite Ow"en*ite, n.
A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on
a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community
on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.
Meaning of Oweni from wikipedia
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Hermathena oweni, the
peppered metalmark, is a
species of
butterfly in
genus Hermathena of the
family Riodinidae. It was
first described by
William Schaus...
- up to that
point had teeth). In 1871,
Marsh named the find
Pterodactylus oweni, ****igning it to the well-known (but much smaller)
European genus Pterodactylus...
- Owen's
chameleon (Trioceros
oweni), also
commonly known as Owen's three-horned chameleon, is a
species of
lizard in the
family Chamaeleonidae. The species...
- The
sandhill gr****wren (Amytornis
oweni) is an
insectivorous bird in the
Australasian wren
family Maluridae. It is
found in
sandplain deserts and mallee...
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oweni. In 1991
George Olshevsky placed the
species in a new genus, Valdoraptor,
renaming its type
species Megalosaurus oweni into
Valdoraptor oweni....
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Geophilus oweni is a
species of soil
centipede in the
family Geophilidae found in Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. It
grows up to 40
millimeters in length...
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Ninjemys oweni is an
extinct large meiolaniid stem-turtle from
Pleistocene Queensland and
possibly New
South Wales (Australia). It
overall resembled its...
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Philoponella oweni is a
species of
spider belonging to the
family Uloboridae, the
cribellate orb weavers. They are
around 4.7–7.1 mm long in
length and...
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Macaria oweni, Owen's
larch looper or Owen's
angle moth, is a moth of the
family Geometridae. The
species was
first described by
Louis W.
Swett in 1907...
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toothless conical rostrum. Two
valid species are
attached to the genus, T.
oweni and T. antarcticus,
known respectively from the
fossil record of present-day...
