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Sierra Club
(Encyclopedia)Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by...book clubs
(Encyclopedia)book clubs. As a phenomenon in American cultural life, book clubs have made an impact in two periods of history. During the 18th and 19th cent. book clubs were formed for the purposes of discussion an...reindeer moss
(Encyclopedia)reindeer moss: see lichen.Iceland moss
(Encyclopedia)Iceland moss: see lichen.Jaffna moss
(Encyclopedia)Jaffna moss: see agar.moss agate
(Encyclopedia)moss agate: see agate.peat moss
(Encyclopedia)peat moss: see sphagnum.Scriblerus Club
(Encyclopedia)Scriblerus Club, English literary group formed about 1713 to satirize “all the false tastes in learning.” Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell, Pope, and Swift. Meetings of ...moss animal
(Encyclopedia)moss animal, common name applied to members of the phylum Ectoprocta. ...liverwort
(Encyclopedia)liverwort, any plant of the class Marchantiopsida. Mosses and liverworts together comprise the division Bryophyta, primitive green land plants (see moss; plant); some of the earliest land plants resem...Browse by Subject
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