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Kaveri
(Encyclopedia) Kaveri or CauveryCauveryboth: kôˈvərē [key], river, c.475 mi (760 km) long, rising in the Western Ghats, Karnataka state, and flowing SE across a plateau, through Tamil Nadu state, to…Dieppe
(Encyclopedia) Dieppe Dieppe dēĕpˈ [key], city, Seine-Maritime dept., N France, in Normandy, at the mouth of…Davao
(Encyclopedia) Davao Davao dävouˈ [key], city, Davao del Sur prov., SE Mindanao, the Philippines, at the…Chaetognatha
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Anatomy of an arrow worm, Sagitta, representative of the phylum Chaetognatha ChaetognathaChaetognathakētôgnăthˈə [key], phylum of predominantly pelagic marine animals commonly…handkerchief
(Encyclopedia) handkerchief. In classical Greece pieces of fine perfumed cotton, known as mouth or perspiration cloths, were often used by the wealthy. From the 1st cent. b.c., Roman men of rank used…Jefferson City
(Encyclopedia) Jefferson City, city (1990 pop. 35,481), state capital and seat of Cole co., central Mo., on the south bank of the Missouri River, near the mouth of the Osage; inc. 1825. The state…Bandar Abbas
(Encyclopedia) Bandar Abbas Bandar Abbas bändärˈ äb-bäsˈ [key], city, S Iran, on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of…Red Jacket
(Encyclopedia) Red Jacket, c.1758–1830, chief of the Seneca, b. probably Seneca co., N.Y. His Native American name was Otetiani, changed to Sagoyewatha when he became a chief. His English name came…Pachycephalosaurus
(Encyclopedia) PachycephalosaurusPachycephalosauruspăkˌĭsĕfˌəlōsôrˈəs [key] [Gr., = thick-headed lizard], bipedal herbivorous dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, approximately 68–65 million years…Socotra
(Encyclopedia) SocotraSocotrasəkōˈtrə, sō– [key], island, 1,383 sq mi (3,582 sq km), S Yemen, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. With three much smaller islands to the west it forms the Socotra…Trending
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