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Dragon's blood, powdered pigment or apothecary's grade and roughly crushed incense, extracted from Calamus draco. Dragon's blood is a bright red resin which is obtained from different species of a number of distinct plant genera: Calamus spp. (previously Daemonorops) also including Calamus rotang, Croton, Dracaena and Pterocarpus.
The seeds are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) in diameter and weigh on average 68 mg. [5] The berries exude a deep red resin, known as dragon's blood. [6] Like other monocotyledons, such as palms, the dragon's blood tree grows from the tip of the stem, with the long, stiff leaves borne in dense rosettes at the end. It branches at maturity to produce ...
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Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Chinese red or China red is the name used for the vermilion shade used in Chinese lacquerware. The shade of the color can vary from dark to light depending upon how the pigment is made and how the lacquer was applied.
Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. Reddish may also refer to: Reddish (surname), including a list of people with the name; Reddish, Illinois, U.S., an unincorporated community; 2884 Reddish, a main-belt asteroid; Reddish House in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England
Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow; Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea, who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that allowed him to breathe underwater; Io Matua Kore, in some Māori traditions the supreme god
The names of regions on Io use a combination of a name derived from locations in Greek mythology associated with the nymph Io or Dante's Inferno, or from the name of a nearby feature on Io's surface and the descriptor term, regio, Latin for region. Coordinate, diameter, and name source below come from the IAU's Solar System Nomenclature Website.