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Video footage: Endangered Amboina Box Turtle (Cuora amboinensis) slowly emerges from shell in the jungles of Borneo. AKA Malayan or Malaysian or Southeast Asian Box Turtle. This is an unidentified subspecies.

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Definition of the noun amboina

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Amboina is a genus of Dictyopharidae, described by Kirkaldy in 1913.

synonym: genus Amboina
kingdom: Animalia
phylum: Arthropoda
class: Insecta
order: Hemiptera
family: Dictyopharidae

Amboina is a genus of Polyrhachis tubifex.

kingdom: Animalia
phylum: Arthropoda
class: Insecta
order: Hymenoptera
family: Formicidae
species: Polyrhachis denticulata

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At Sea With the Scientifics (1992)

The Challenger Letters of Joseph Matkin by Joseph Matkin, Philip F. Rehbock

Amboina is the capital of the Molucca Islands, & has about 30,000 inhabitants, the town has 16,000, mostly Malays, Papuans, mixed races, Chinese, Arabs, & Europeans. There was a large Fort, & lots of soldiers there, & we had the Dutch ...

The Stakes of Democracy in South-East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia) (2015)

by H. J. van Mook

Amboina is the central island of the southern Moluccas; 142 THE STAKES OF DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.

The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (1769)

by Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber

AMBOINA is an island of the East Indies, the whole circuit of which is but sixteen leagues, yet, from the spice it affords, is of no small consideration.

Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (1996)

by James Stuart Olson, Robert Shadle

AMBOINA MASSACRE OF 1623 was badly wounded, forcing him eventually to relinquish command to Major- General Sir John Garvock, who arrived with reinforcements on November 30. On December 15th, General Garvock, leading a ...

The New International Encyclopaedia (1914)

by Talcott Williams, Frank Moore Colby

of 264 square miles and is divided by the Bay of Amboina into two unequal peninsulas (Map: East India Islands, G 5)—Hitu the larger, and Leitimor, the smaller. The surface is irregular, highly mountainous, but fertile.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles (2004)

by Murray Wrobel

Box Turtles; Old World Box Turtles d Scharnierschildkröten f Tortues-boîte; Tortues tabatières; Tortues tabatières d'Asie 2420 Cuora amboinensis Testudines - Emydidae e South East Asia Box Turtle; Amboina Box Turtle; Malayan Box Turtle ...

A Dictionary of World History (2015)

by Edmund Wright

CelebesCelebesCelebes MoluccasMoluccasMoluccas JavaJavaJava Batavia Batavia Batavia MacassarMacassarMacassar Amboina Amboina Amboina MataramMataramMataram BantamBantamBantam BandaBandaBandaIsIsIs Cape of ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature (1859)

Reid - Scy

modestus Amboina, Sac. Nympba Bengal. audax Paraguay. .. petolariua Guyana. (Sen. 5.— Coluber. Coluber ifisculapii Southern Europe. constrictor North America. radiatus Cochin China, Ac.

Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature (1826)

It inhabits Amboina. 20. Ruber ; Molucca lory. Red ; area of the eyes and quill ...

WINSTON'S CUMULATIVE LOOSE-LEAF ENCYCLOPEDIA (1921)

Amboina, or J Apon, one of the Molucca Islands in the Indian Archipelago, close to the large island of Ceram; area, 262 sq. miles. Here is the seat of government of the Dutch residency or province of Amboyna, which ...

Dictionary of Furniture (2013)

Third Edition by Charles Boyce, Joseph T. Butler

AMBOYNA WOOD (also Amboina) Asian HARDWOOD; a PADAUK, light red to golden brown in color, very popular in 18thand 19thcentury European ...

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names (1999)

Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms. Synonyms, and Etymology by Umberto Quattrocchi

Rubiaceae Origins: Timon is an Amboina plant name; in the Malay-Indonesian language ...

Multilingual Dictionary of Agronomic Plants (2012)

by G. Rehm

amboina temu tis Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb. . С . zanthorrhiza Roxb. amboina javanische Curcuma tcmu lawas temu lawak Curcuma mntharrhiza Roxb. -> 772 Curcuma zedoaria ...