Términos

Granito rojo áspero extraído de canteras en Finlandia caracterizado por feldespatos con anillo ovoide muy poco corriente y utilizado a menudo en construcciones en el norte de Rusia.

Término general para referirse a todas las aves rapiñas ya sea falconiformes u órdenes estrigiformes, como halcones, águilas, buitres, halcones y búhos, que tienen en común un pico ganchudo, garras afiladas, y una vista muy aguda.

Genus containing around 20 species of palm trees native primarily to Africa, with one species in Central and South America. They are distinguished by their compound pinnate leaves, the longest in the plant kingdom (some reaching 25 m in length).

Family of extinct flightless birds, including the dodo, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, but became extinct through hunting by humans and predation by introduced non-native mammals following human colonization in the 17th century.

Members of an order containing around 150 species of predatory insects characterized by having an elongate prothorax but no modification of the forelegs.

Genus containing the extinct flightless bird, the dodo.

Extinct flightless birds native to Mauritius, first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507. They were extinct by 1681 Dodos weighed about 50 pounds, had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end.

Área en ríos o arroyos irregular, parcialmente obstruida y de flujo rápido.

Espadas livianas con una hoja larga, angosta, de doble filo, y una empuñadura provista de una amplia protección para la mano, tal como brazos en la empuñadura y argollas laterales, una guarnición de concha o de taza. Originariamente diseñadas para asentar tanto cortes como estocadas, devinieron en espadas sólo para estocadas y se constituyeron en las principales armas de esgrima en los siglos XVI y XVII.

Refiere a la cultura del Rappahannock, un pueblo originario de Virginia que habitan un área norte del río de Rappahannock y los ríos de Mattaponi y Fredericksburg.

The activity of using using rope fixed at a higher point to make a controlled descent of a vertical drop, such as a rock face or tall building.

General term referring to several species of carnivorous dinosaurs that walk on two legs, including Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Oviraptor, Dromaeosaurus, Gigantoraptor, among others.

Pala de mango largo y cabeza redonda u ovalada, con un enrejado de cuerdas muy estiradas, que se utiliza para golpear pelotas o volantes en varios deportes. Para la pala similar, más pequeña y con una cabeza sólida, con la que se practica el tenis de mesa, use paleta.

A ball game for two players (or two pairs of players) occupying the same playing area in a four-walled court, in which the ball is directed with a racket against the front wall, points (in the modern game) being won by the server if the opponent is unable to return the ball successfully within the laws of the game. Rackets is distinguished from the more recent game, squash, in particular by the use of a solid, harder ball. Rackets is now played in covered indoor courts, but rackets is known to have been played in open outdoor courts before the 19th century, though the exact nature of the original game is uncertain.

Dispositivo que permite al usuario caminar sobre nieve profunda sin hundirse y que consta generalmente de un tablero en forma de raqueta encordada con una red de cuerdas y correas de cuero con las que se ata a los pies.

Any of the group of metallic elements whose oxides are classed as rare earths. These include the lanthanide series, yttrium and scandium.