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Rumex hypogaeus (synonym Emex australis), commonly known in English as southern threecornerjack, [2] devil's thorn, [citation needed] or double gee [3] (also doublegee, from the old Afrikaner name dubbeltge-doorn - 'double thorned'), is a herbaceous plant of the Polygonaceae.
Primula fragrans is a hairy, thick-rooted perennial with long, clumping leaves around the base.. It erects slim, tall, hairy stems which are dark in color and are topped with inflorescences of 5 to 10 showy flowers.
Calochortus panamintensis is a rare North American species of flowering plants in the lily family known by the common name Panamint mariposa lily. [2] It is native to Inyo and Kern Counties in California, plus adjacent Nye County, Nevada.
Letting the cat out of the bag (also ...box) is a colloquialism that means to reveal facts previously hidden. It could refer to revealing a conspiracy (friendly or not) to its target, letting an outsider into an inner circle of knowledge (e.g., explaining an in-joke), or the revelation of a plot twist in a movie or play.
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apokálypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation. [13] It has been defined by John J Collins as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S ...
The term angular frequency vector is sometimes used as a synonym for the vector quantity angular velocity. [13] One revolution is equal to 2π radians, hence [13] [14] = =, where: ω is the angular frequency or angular speed (measured in radians per second),