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  • 41Origins of Indian ethnic groups — The Indian subcontinent has been home to a multitudinous variety of racial groups throughout the millennia, making it one of the most genetically rich areas on the globe today. Relatively isolated from the rest of Eurasia by the Himilayas to the… …

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  • 42Trimeresurus flavoviridis — Taxobox name = Trimeresurus flavoviridis image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Reptilia ordo = Squamata subordo = Serpentes familia = Viperidae subfamilia = Crotalinae genus = Trimeresurus species =… …

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  • 43slenderness — See slenderly. * * * …

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  • 44slightly — slight·ly (slītʹlē) adv. 1. To a small degree or extent; somewhat. 2. Slenderly; delicately: slightly built. * * * …

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  • 45bat — bat1 /bat/, n., v., batted, batting. n. 1. Sports. a. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. b. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis. c. a whip used by a jockey. d. the act of using a… …

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  • 46comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …

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  • 47kangaroo — kangaroolike, adj. /kang geuh rooh /, n., pl. kangaroos, (esp. collectively) kangaroo. any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for… …

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  • 48lear — /lear/, n. Scot. and North Eng. learning; instruction; lesson. [1350 1400; late ME lere lesson, n. use of lere to teach, OE laeran; c. D leren, G lehren, Goth laisjan; akin to LORE] * * * (as used in expressions) Lear Edward Lear Norman Milton… …

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  • 49Lear — /lear/, n. 1. Edward, 1812 88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter. 2. (italics) See King Lear. * * * (as used in expressions) Lear Edward Lear Norman Milton Lear William Powell * * * ▪ legendary English king       legendary… …

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  • 50Sisters of the Institute of Charity of Providence —     Congregations of Providence (V)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Congregations of Providence (V)     SISTERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHARITY     An offshoot from the Sisters of Providence, founded by Jean Martin Moye in France in 1762 for teaching… …

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