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Definition of the noun Americina
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Americina is a genus of Scathophagidae, described by Malloch in 1923.
- synonym: genus Americina
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Diptera
- family: Scathophagidae
- members:
- species Americina adusta
- observational distribution: specimen and observational data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (not necessarily true occurrence density gradients)
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Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia (1921)
Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf EncyclopediaA Comprehensive Reference Book
The inner bark yields a yellow dye The American hornbeam (Carpinus americina , is a smail tree sparingly diffused over the whole of the United States. The wood is fine grained, tenacious, and very compact. • (hörn'bilz), a remarkable Hornbills group of birds (Buceroti. da), confined to Southern Asia and Africa, akin to the kingfishers and the toucans, remarkable for the very large size of the bill, and for an extraordinary horny protuberance by which it is surmounted, nearly as large as ...
The New Standard Encyclopedia (1903)
by William A. Colledge, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Jotham Hagar
americina and C. pumila (the latter a shrub), have edible fruits. The former is often regarded as identical with the European tree. The name of Cape Chestnut is given to a beautiful tree of the rue family, a native of Cape Colony. The Moreton Bay Chestnut is a leguminous tree of Australia, Castanospermum austråle, with fruits resembling those of the chestnut. The water-chestnut is the water-caltrop, Trapa natans. The horse-chestnut is quite a different tree from the common ...
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Scrabble value of A1M3E1R1I1C3I1N1A1
The value of this 9-letter word is 13 points, but it's not an accepted word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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