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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.
Meaning of Tenui from wikipedia
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tenuis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tenuis, weak or
slender in Latin, and a
species in zoology, may
refer to:
Language Tenuis consonant...
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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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Dirofilaria tenuis is a
species of nematode, a
parasitic roundworm that
infects the
subcutaneous tissue of vertebrates. D.
tenuis most
commonly infects...
- In linguistics, a
tenuis consonant (/ˈtɛn.juːɪs/ or /ˈ
tɛnuːɪs/) is an
obstruent that is voiceless,
unaspirated and unglottalized. In
other words, it has...
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Calamus tenuis Calamus tenuis in
Bangladesh Leaves of
Calamus tenuis Close view of
Calamus tenuis plant Calamus tenuis plant Fruits of
Calamus tenuis Lansdown...
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Pulmonic consonant letters are
arranged singly or in
pairs of
voiceless (
tenuis) and
voiced sounds, with
these then
grouped in
columns from
front (labial)...
- 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...
- The sharp-tailed
snake or
sharptail snake (Contia
tenuis) is a
small species of
nonvenomous snake in the
family Colubridae. The
species is
endemic to the...
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Juncus tenuis, the
slender rush, is a clump-forming, round-stemmed
perennial in the
Juncaceae (rush family).
Slender rush
grows to be
between 15 and 60 cm...
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Rhodocyclus tenuis is a
bacterium from the
genus of Rhodocyclus.
Rhodocyclus tenuis expresses the high
potential iron-sulfur
protein (HiPIP). LPSN lpsn...
