Términos

Small plant distinguished by the club-like shape of its upright fertile spore-cases and the very small microphylls, a kind of leaf that arose and evolved independently from the leaves of other vascular plants; the microphyll has only a single unbranched strand of vascular tissue. While this division is a small and inconspicuous group of plants today, in the Carboniferous some lycophytes were forest-forming trees more than 35 meters tall. Lycophytes are the oldest extant group of vascular plants, and dominated major habitats for 40 million years.

Fibra sintética elastomérica o tela compuesta en gran parte de alternar segmentos rígidos y flexibles de poliuretano. Se utiliza en la industria de confección, especialmente para calcetería, ropa interior, trajes de baño, y otras prendas muy ajustadas. Spandex es el nombre genérico en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. Elastano es el nombre genérico que se utiliza en otros lugares. La lycra es un nombre propio para este material.

Members of a family containing 90 species of small beetles ranging from reddish brown to black in color, and having larvae that bore through seasoned wood, reducing it to a dry powder. They do not enter varnished, painted, or treated wood. The holes left behind by this and other species of powderpost beetles are often erroneously considered to be evidence of the antiquity of a wooden object.

Género de cuatro especies, entre ellas el gato montés.

Members of a species of small North American lynx with a spotted reddish-brown coat, long legs, large paws, a rather short body, stubby tail, and tufted ears.

Formal poetry expressing personal emotions or feelings; in Ancient Greek literature, defined by its musical accompaniment on the lyre.

Family containing about 620 species in 31 genera of trees, small shrubs, and perennial herbs, growing primarily in warm regions of both the Old World and the New World and is especially diverse in South America and Africa.

A lossless compression algorhythm for digital data that has become most associated with digital image compression. Named for creators Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.

Xylophones of southern Africa with gourd resonators, each having a hole in the side covered by a membrane; when the keys above are struck, the air in the gourds vibrates causing the membranes to sound a buzzing tone.

Se refiere al período Predinástico en el Bajo Egipto desde aproximadamente el 3250 al 3100 a.C., que lleva el nombre del sitio de Ma'adí. El período se caracteriza por evidencia de conexiones con el Alto Egipto y Palestina y la introducción de artefactos de cobre y nueva tecnología lítica.

Escuela de artistas, que lleva el nombre de sus fundadores: Ma Yuan (1139-1194) y Xia Gui (hacia 1190-1225). El estilo se caracteriza por la pintura de paisajes en tinta y color, con pinceladas atrevidas y secas, formas retorcidas y espacios amplios.

Describe obras producidas por africanos de mismo nombre que viven en Chad.

Describe obras producidas por africanos de mismo nombre que viven en Sudán y Etiopía.

Portuguese-based creole language spoken in Macao.