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References A ace Slang for the drug acepromazine or acetyl promazine (trade names Atravet or Acezine), which is a sedative : 3 commonly used on horses during veterinary treatment, but also illegal in the show ring. Also abbreviated ACP. action The way a horse elevates its legs, knees, hock, and feet. : 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used ...
Gulliver describes the land as "divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted but naturally growing", with a "great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats". [ 3 ] The Houyhnhnms are rational equine beings and are masters of the land, contrasting strongly with the Yahoos , savage humanoid creatures who are no better than beasts of ...
When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse there's the devil to pay: seafaring words in everyday speech. Camden ME: International Marine. ISBN 978-0-07-032877-8. Miller, Charles A. (2003). Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present. Lanham, MD ...
According to CAB International, [3]: 495 the Dareshuri belongs to the Persian plateau horse group. [11] The average height is 1.50 to 1.55 m, making it one of the largest Persian horses. [12] [4]: 223 [13]: 299 The morphology is said to be dis-harmonious. The head has a rectilinear profile, concave (typical Arabian), with an eye that can be ...
The CAB International study (2016) distinguishes three main types or breeds of horse in Iran: the Persian Arabian, the Persian Plateau horse and the Turkoman, divided into numerous subtypes, whose characterizations remain unclear. [10] It also mentions the existence of the Tchenaran horse. [10]
Oceanic plateau – Relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed; Oceanic ridge – An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading; Oceanic trench – Long and narrow depressions of the sea floor; Peninsula – Landform surrounded more than half but not entirely by water
dissected plateau A landscape produced by significant stream erosion and incision of a plateau such that only a small part of the plateau surface is at or near the original elevation of the summit; much of the area instead occurs as eroded hills or badlands. [5] distance decay
A plain or flatland is a flat expanse of land with a layer of grass that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands. [1]