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Strombuliform
Strombuliform Strom*bu"li*form, a. [NL. strombulus, dim. of strombus + -form. See Strombus.] 1. (Geol.) Formed or shaped like a top. 2. (Bot.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
Strombus
Strombus Strom"bus, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.
Strombus gigas
Fountain Foun"tain (foun"t[i^]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d Fount.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. Air fountain. See under Air. Fountain heead, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. Fountain pump. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. Fountain shell (Zo["o]l.), the large West Indian conch shell (Strombus gigas). Fountain of youth, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.
Thrombus
Thrombus Throm"bus, n.; pl. Thrombi. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a lump, a clot of blood.] (Med.) (a) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation. (b) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

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- early concepts (prior to the 1990s) which were never constructed include: ROMBUS (Reusable Orbital Module, Booster, and Utility Shuttle), another design...
- production company Reusable Orbital Module, Booster, and Utility Shuttle (ROMBUS), a proposed reusable single-stage-to-orbit space launch vehicle Rhombic...
- bulbocodium APDB: 160685 APNI: 62214 BOLD: 557677 CoL: 798LH EoL: 5865566 EPPO: ROMBU EUNIS: 186845 FoIO: ROMBUL GBIF: 2743687 GRIN: 32046 iNaturalist: 59940...
- Space Truck (ROOST) Reusable Orbital Module, Booster, and Utility Shuttle (ROMBUS) Ithacus Pegasus Hyperion S****TO Mars Glider Hyperion was HTVL, the others...
- Albertus van Hulzen, De Grote Geus: en het falende Driemanschap, (Typographie Rombus, 1995), 7 note1. John B. Roney, Culture and Customs of the Netherlands,...
- performance by the yokels is derived. The Schoolmaster who organises it recalls Rombus in Sir Philip Sidney's one-act play The Lady of May (1579?). In other respects...
- to hold an auction on 4 July 2005, to privatize the Parus Hotel complex. Rombus-Privat indicated their willingness to buy the construction. A new design...
- Mars expedition concept proposed by Philip Bono in 1964, utilizing the ROMBUS single-stage-to-orbit booster. This booster, refueled in Earth orbit, would...
- the Lady of May herself, and a schoolmaster called Rombus. After a brief quarrel between Rombus and the May Lady, the two suitors, Therion and Espilus...
- launched. After designing a number of such vehicles, including ROOST and the ROMBUS/Ithacus/Pegasus series, Bono noticed that the S-IVB stage, then just starting...