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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
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A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
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Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.
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A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
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Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.
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The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
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A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.
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Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
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Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.
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The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
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A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
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A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.
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That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
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Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer.
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An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.
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Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
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A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
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Alt. of Hemispherical
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