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cane, in botany
(Encyclopedia) cane, in botany, name for the hollow or woody, usually slender and jointed stems of plants (particularly rattan and other bamboos) and for various tall grasses, e.g., sugarcane,…Abbeville, city, United States
(Encyclopedia) Abbeville Abbeville ăˈbēvĭl [key], city (2020 pop. 11,760), seat of Vermilion parish, S La., on the Vermilion River, with access to the Intracoastal Waterway…Taichung
(Encyclopedia) Taichung or T'ai-chungTaichungboth: tīˈj&oomacr;ngˈ [key], special municipality (2010 pop. 2,731,056), 855 sq mi (2,214 sq km), W central Taiwan. It was created in 2010 by merging…Yaoundé
(Encyclopedia) YaoundéYaoundéyä&oomacr;ndāˈ [key], city (1990 est. pop. 750,000), capital of Cameroon. It is the country's administrative, financial, and communications center. Manufactures…molasses
(Encyclopedia) molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the…Sancti Spíritus
(Encyclopedia) Sancti SpíritusSancti Spíritussängkˈtē-spēˈrēt&oomacr;s [key], city (1994 est. pop. 86,000), Sancti Spíritus prov., central Cuba, on the Yayabo River. It is the commercial and…Trujillo , city, Peru
(Encyclopedia) TrujilloTrujillotr&oomacr;hēˈyō [key], city (1993 pop. 256,744), capital of La Libertad dept., NW Peru, in a fertile oasis of the coastal desert. A thriving commercial and…Xi
(Encyclopedia) XiXishē [key] or Xi JiangXishē jyäng [key], great river of S China, c.1,250 mi (2,010 km) long, rising in E Yunnan prov. and flowing generally E through Guangxi and Guangdong provs. to…agouti
(Encyclopedia) agoutiagoutiəg&oomacr;ˈtē [key], name applied to rabbit-sized rodents of the genus Dasyprocta, found in Central and South America and in the West Indies. They have slender limbs…Jinja
(Encyclopedia) JinjaJinjajĭnˈjə [key], city (2002 pop. 71,213), SE Uganda, on the Victoria Nile River, near Lake Victoria. It is an industrial city and the commercial and processing center for a…Trending
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