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Myoporum tenuifoliumSandalwood 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 tenuicostatusScallop 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.
TenuiousTenuious Te*nu"i*ous, a. [See Tenuous.]
Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.]
--Glanvill. TenuirosterTenuiroster Ten`u*i*ros"ter, n.; pl. Tenuirosters. [NL., fr.
L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the Tenuirostres. TenuirostersTenuiroster 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.
TenuisTenuis 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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Tenuis, weak or
slender in Latin, and a
species in zoology, may
refer to:
Language Tenuis consonant...
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Odontamblyopus tenuis is a
species of eel goby
native to fresh,
brackish and
marine coastal waters from ****stan and Myanmar. This
species can
reach a...
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Kinyongia tenuis, also
known as the
Usambara soft-horned chameleon,
Usambara flap-nosed
chameleon and Matschie's
dwarf chameleon, is a
fairly small species...
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Tenuiphantes tenuis is a
species of
spider belonging to the
family Linyphiidae. Its
native distribution is
reported as Europe, Macaronesia,
Northern Africa...
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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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Cyanothamnus tenuis,
commonly known as blue boronia, is a
species of
plant in the
citrus family, Rutaceae, and is
endemic to the
southwest of
Western Australia...
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Athetis tenuis is a moth of the
family Noctuidae. It is
known from all of Australia,
including Norfolk Island as well as New Zealand. The
larvae have been...
- C.
tenuis may
refer to:
Cattleya tenuis, the slender-stemmed cattleya, an
orchid species Clypeola tenuis, a
gastropod species Cystopteris tenuis, the...
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Monstera tenuis is a
species of
plant in the
genus Monstera native to
Central America, from
Nicaragua to Panama. It
grows in wet
tropical habitats below...
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Psidopala tenuis is a moth in the
family Drepanidae. It was
described by
George Hampson in 1896. It is
found in India,
Nepal and Tibet, China. The wingspan...
