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  • 71Mental physiology — Physiology Phys i*ol o*gy, n.; pl. {Physiologies}. [L. physiologia, Gr. ?; fy sis nature + ? discourse: cf. F. physiologie.] 1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and… …

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  • 72Physiologies — Physiology Phys i*ol o*gy, n.; pl. {Physiologies}. [L. physiologia, Gr. ?; fy sis nature + ? discourse: cf. F. physiologie.] 1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and… …

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  • 73Physiology — Phys i*ol o*gy, n.; pl. {Physiologies}. [L. physiologia, Gr. ?; fy sis nature + ? discourse: cf. F. physiologie.] 1. The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of,… …

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  • 74Protoplasm — Pro to*plasm, n. [Proto + Gr. ? form, fr. ? to mold.] (Biol.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so …

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  • 75Darwin Among the Machines — appeared as the heading of an article published in The Press newspaper on 13 June 1863 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Signed Cellarius but written by Samuel Butler, the article raised the possibility that machines could evolve mechanical… …

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  • 76greens — Synonyms and related words: Irish potato, Kraut, aubergine, beans, botany, cabbage, eggplant, flora, flowerage, greenery, herbage, legumes, love apple, mad apple, pieplant, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, potato, potherbs, produce, rhubarb,… …

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  • 77verdure — Synonyms and related words: botany, chloranemia, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, flora, flowerage, glaucescence, glaucousness, green, greenery, greenishness, greenness, greens, greensickness, herbage, leafage, plant kingdom, plant life, plants …

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  • 78rational soul — noun : the soul that in the scholastic tradition has independent existence apart from the body and that is the characteristic animating principle of human life as distinguished from animal or vegetable life compare animal soul, vegetable soul …

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  • 79Vegetation — Veg e*ta tion, n. [Cf. F. v[ e]g[ e]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See {Vegetable}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [1913 Webster] 2. The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or …

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  • 80Vegetation of salts — Vegetation Veg e*ta tion, n. [Cf. F. v[ e]g[ e]tation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See {Vegetable}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. [1913 Webster] 2. The sum of vegetable life;… …

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