Australoid is a broad racial sub-classification of black peoples having generally dark skin and coarse hair which can be curly, straight, or kinky. Black Australoid peoples range from areas of Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines, Malaysia, Melanesia), and parts of the Indian subcontinent. The term can refer to Tamils of southern India, some Pakistanis and, as the name implies, the aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Guinea, and the aboriginal blacks of Asia, once commonly known as Negritos. A ...

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Applesauce (or apple sauce) is made from stewed and mashed apples, sweetened to taste with sugar or high fructose corn syrup. It can use peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices or additives like cinnamon. Applesauce can be fine or coarse textured, even to including large chunks of apple. It is easily produced at home, and commercial versions are readily available in the supermarket as a common food or as a snack for children. Unsweetened applesauce is a good food for babies ...

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Arse is a word for buttocks, commonly used in Commonwealth English. In the United States and parts of Canada, ass is used (both spoken and in writing) instead. Arse - Etymology. "Arse", from Old English ærs, meaning anus, and by extension the crease between the buttocks, and hence the whole human bottom, with many cognates such as Dutch aars, German Arsch, has been in British usage a coarse word for the buttocks (seen as one organ). Scatolinguist ...

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See text The Cockleburs (Xanthium) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia. They are coarse, herbaceous annual plants growing to 50-120 cm tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, with a deeply toothed margin. Some species, notably X. spinosum, are also very thorny with long, slender spines at the leaf bases. The flowers are of two types; One, in short terminal branches, produces only pollen. The other, in clu ...

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The Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) is a species of bird cherry (Prunus subgenus Padus) native to North America, where it is found almost throughout the continent except for the deep south and the far north. It is a suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall. The leaves are oval, 3-10 cm long, with a coarsely serrated margin. The flowers are produced in racemes of 15-30 in late spring (well after leaf emergence). The fruit are about 1 cm diamete ...

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"Vulgarism" derives from Latin vulgus, the "common folk", and has carried into English its original connotations linking it with the low and coarse motivations that were supposed to be natural to the commons, who were not moved by higher motives like fame for posterity and honor among peers— motives that were alleged to move the literate classes. Thus the concept of vulgarism carries cultural freight from the outset, and from some social perspectives it does not genuinely exist, or— a perhaps this amounts ...

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Yellowcake (also known as urania and uranic oxide) is concentrated uranium oxide, obtained through the milling of uranium ore. It is usually represented by the formula U3O8. It is radioactive, forming a coarse powder which is insoluble in water and contains about 80% uranium oxide, and melts at approximately 2878°C. It is created by passing raw uranium ore through crushers and grinders to produce "pulped" ore. This is then bathed in sulfuric acid to leach out the urani ...

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Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense), also known as "Bull nettle" and "Apple of Sodom" is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is known for producing painful spines along the stems that penetrate the skin and break off. It is a perennial, herbaceous plant native to southeastern United States that has spread widely throughout North America. Leaves are alternate, eliptic-oblong to oval, and each is irregularly lobed or coarsely toothed. Both surfaces are covered with fine hairs. ...

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Coir (from Malayalam kayaru - cord) is a coarse fibre extracted from the fibrous outer shell of a coconut. Coir - Structure. The individual fibre cells are narrow and hollow, with thick walls made of cellulose. They are pale when immature but later become hardened and yellowed as a layer of lignin, is deposited on their walls. Mature brown coir fibres contain more lignin and less cellulose than fibres such as flax and cotton and so are stronger but less flexible. They are made up of small threads, ea ...

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A wheeze is a continuous, coarse, whistling sound produced in the respiratory airways during breathing. For wheezes to occur, some part of the respiratory tree must be narrowed or obstructed, or airflow velocity within the respiratory tree must be heightened. Wheezing is commonly experienced by persons with a lung disease; the most common cause of recurrent wheezing is asthma, a form of reactive airway disease. The differential diagnosis of wheezing is wide, and the cause of wheezing in a given patient is determined by consider ...

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Granularity is the extent to which a system contains discrete components of ever-smaller size. An example of increasi ng granularity: a list of nations in the United Nations, a list of all states/provinces in those nations, a list of all counties in those states, and so on until you have a list of all people in the countries that belong to the U.N. Granularity - In physics. A fine-grained description of a system is a detailed, low-level model of it. A coarse-grained description is a mod ...

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Vitis riparia Michx, also commonly known as River Bank Grape or Frost Grape, is a native American climbing or trailing vine, widely distributed from Quebec to Texas, and Montana to New England. It is long-lived and capable of reaching into the upper canopy of the tallest trees. Mature vines have loose, fissured bark, and may attain several inches in diameter. Leaves are alternate, often with opposite tendrils or inflorescences, coarsely toothed, 5–25 cm long and 5–20 cm broad, so ...

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The term cilice traditionally refers to the hairshirt, a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair. The word is pronounced "SILL-iss" (IPA /'sɪlɪs/), and derives from the Latin cilicium, a covering made of goat's hair from Cilicia, a Roman province in south-east Asia Minor. Such garments were worn at various times in the history of the Christian faith, for the purposes of the mortification of the flesh. Apart from the itchiness of the shirt' ...

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The Maned three-toed sloth, also known as an ai, Bradypus torquatus, is a species of three-toed South American sloth. The ai has a small head, tiny eyes and ears, and a small tail hidden in its fur. It is about 50 cm long, and weighs up to 4.5 kg. Its coarse outer coat is usually inhabited by algae, mites, ticks, beetles, and moths. The coat is dark, long, and manelike around its head ...

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Cimicifuga racemosa (Black cohosh, Black bugbane or Black snakeroot; syn. Actaea racemosa) is a member of the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario south to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas. It is a glabrous herbaceous perennial plant, growing 0.75-2.5 m tall. The basal leaves are up to 1 m long and broad, tripinnately compound, the leaflets with a coarsely toothed margin. The flowers are produced in late spring and early summ ...

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The Cork Oak (Quercus suber) is a medium sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. The leaves are 4-7 cm long, weakly lobed or coarsely toothed, dark green above, paler beneath, with the leaf margins often downcurved. The acorns are 2-3 cm long, in a deep cup fringed with elongated scales. It forms a thick, rugged and corky bark. Over time this bark can develop considerable thickness, and this is harvested every 10-12 years a ...

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Acacia phlebophylla, an Acacia also known by the names Buffalo Sallow Wattle and Mountain Buffalo Wattle, is a straggling shrub to small, twisted tree reaching up to 5 meters in height. It has large, elliptic, flat, commonly asymmetrical phyllodes 4-14 cm long, 1.5-6 cm wide, with coarse veins, a leathery feel, prominent nerves and reticulated veins. Deep yellow rod-like flowers appear in spring (June-December), widely scattered on spikes 4-7 cm long, followed by 7-10 cm long legumes in November-March, narrow, straight o ...

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The Chusan Palm (sometimes "Chinese Windmill Palm"), Trachycarpus fortunei, is native to central and eastern China, where it is one of the hardiest palm species in the world. It grows to 20 m tall on a single stem up to 20-30 cm diameter. The trunk is very rough with the persistent leaf bases clasping the stem as layers of coarse fibrous material. It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with the long petiole bare except for two rows of small spines, terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets; each leaf is 140-190 cm long, with the petiole 60-100 cm long, and the le ...

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A WDM system uses a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the signals together, and a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. With the right type of fibre you can have a device that does both at once, and can function as an optical add-drop multiplexer. The optical filtering devices used in the modems are usually etalons, stable solid-state single-frequency Fabry-Perot interferometers. The first WDM systems combined two signals and appeared around 1985. Modern systems can handle up to 160 signals and can expand a basic 10 Gbit/s fibre system to a theoret ...

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The Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) is an oak in the white oak group (Quercus sect. Quercus). It is native to eastern North America, from Vermont and southern Ontario west to Iowa, south to northwest Florida and eastern Texas, with disjunct populations in west Texas and southeast New Mexico, and eastern Mexico from Coahuila south to Hidalgo. It is a deciduous tree reaching 30 m tall (exceptionally up to 50 m), with a rounded crown and thin, scaly or flaky bark on the trunk. The leaves resemble those of a chestnut, coarsely toothed, 5-15 cm long and 4-8 cm broad. The acorns are 1.5-2 cm l ...

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Aida cloth is a coarse, open-weave, even-weave fabric traditionally used for cross-stitch embroidery. Aida cloth is manufactured with various size spaces or holes between the warp and weft to accommodate different thicknesses of yarn or thread. These are described in count – that is, 10-count aida cloth has 10 holes per linear inch. Typical sizes are 7-, 10-, 11-, 12- and 14 count. The fabric is relatively stiff for ease of use and is made from linen, cotton, or blends. Traditional colours are white, "natural" (off-white), or shades of tan and brown, alth ...

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