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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A classification category for a group of organisms (Cetaceans, Mammalia, Protista, etc. ).
Industry:Biology
Altering a stream by straightening, diverting, or dredging, usually to make it run faster.
Industry:Biology
A rootlike outgrowth that attaches a plant (hornworts, liverworts, mosses) to the ground.
Industry:Biology
A zygote (fertilized egg) whose cells have divided prior to its developing into a foetus.
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The daytime movement of air from water to land down a pressure gradient. See Land Breeze.
Industry:Biology
Natural plane of breakage along which consecutive breaks produce smooth, parallel splits.
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Plants with either male or female flowers, but not both (spinach, holly, date palm, etc. ).
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All are descended from Canis lupus, the gray wolf. Coyotes are the next closest relatives.
Industry:Biology
Irrigationless farming in arid or semi-arid conditions (rainfall below 20 inches a year).
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A recently born or hatched animal before it undergoes metamorphosis into its mature form.
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