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Atropis tenuifolia
Bunch grass Bunch" grass` (Bot.) A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
Myoporum tenuifolium
Sandalwood San"dal*wood, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.
P Clintonius or tenuicostatus
Scallop Scal"lop (?; 277), n. [OF. escalope a shell, probably of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. scale of a fish; cf. D. schelp shell. See Scale of a fish, and cf. Escalop.] [Written also scollop.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinid[ae]. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacob[ae]us) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2. Note: The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States is Pecten irradians; the large sea scallop, also used as food, is P. Clintonius, or tenuicostatus. 2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. 3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
Tenuifolious
Tenuifolious Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous, a. [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves.
Tenuious
Tenuious Te*nu"i*ous, a. [See Tenuous.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
Tenuiroster
Tenuiroster Ten`u*i*ros"ter, n.; pl. Tenuirosters. [NL., fr. L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Tenuirostres.
Tenuirosters
Tenuiroster Ten`u*i*ros"ter, n.; pl. Tenuirosters. [NL., fr. L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Tenuirostres.
Tenuirostral
Tenuirostral Ten`u*i*ros"tral, a. (Zo["o]l.) Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.
Tenuirostres
Tenuirostres Ten`u*i*ros"tres, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
Tenuis
Tenuis Ten"u*is, n.; pl. Tenues. [NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See Tenuous.] (Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes [kappa], [pi], [tau]; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, [gamma], [beta], [delta], and their aspirates, [chi], [phi], [theta]. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

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- Look up tenuis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tenuis, weak or slender in Latin, and a species in zoology, may refer to: Language Tenuis consonant...
- Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (also known as meningeal worm or brainworm) is a neurotropic nematode parasite common to white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virgini****...
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- Anthonomus tenuis is a species of true weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae. It is found in North America. "Anthonomus tenuis Report". Integrated...
- other species have been purported, although only two others—****insonia tenuis and ****insonia menneri—are widely considered valid. ****insonia fossils...
- Benthodesmus tenuis, the slender frostfish or ribbon scabbardfish, is a species of cutl****fish in the family Trichiuridae. Iwamoto, T.; Dooley, J.; Collette...
- are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardina. They are sardine-sized teleost fishes...
- Scaphinotus tenuis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America. "Scaphinotus tenuis Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
- Eugenia obovata Poir. Eugenia obtusifolia Roxb. Eugenia odorata Wight Eugenia tenuis Duthie Eugenia tsoi Merr. & Chun Jambolifera chinensis Spreng. Jambolifera...
- C. tenuis may refer to: Cattleya tenuis, the slender-stemmed cattleya, an orchid species Clypeola tenuis, a gastropod species Cystopteris tenuis, the...