Términos

Genus containing around 9 species of common saprobic fungi that reproduce by vegetative, asexual, and sexual methods by spores. Members are found on various plants and as specialized parasites on animals, including humans. They are found on a wide variety of organic substrates, including mature fruits and vegetables, feces, jellies, syrups, leather, bread, peanuts, and tobacco.

Culture or condition of citizenship or residency of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

Nationality, culture, or styles of the historical area of Rhodesia, Africa. For the nationality of the modern nation, use "Zimbabwean."

Nationality, style, or culture of the island of Rhodes, now in Greece, in the Aegean Sea off the southwest coast of Turkey.

Mineral composed of manganese carbonate (MnCO3), appearing transparent to opaque pink to deep red in color; used as an ornamental stone and source for manganese. Found in hydrothermal veins along with other manganese minerals in low temperature ore deposits as in the silver mines of Romania, Germany, and Britain; also found in South and North America.

A pink to light violet variety of garnet; is used as a gemstone.

Manganese silicate occurring as rose-pink or brownish crystals sometimes used as a gemstone.

Class including about 4,100 species of predominantly marine algae often found attached to other shore plants. Their morphological range includes filamentous, branched, feathered, and sheetlike thalli.

Large group containing between 5,000 and 10,000 species, depending upon the classification, of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds and coralline algae. They are characterized by having eukaryotic cells without flagella and centrioles, using floridean starch as food reserve, having phycobiliproteins as accessory red pigments, lacking external endoplasmic reticulum, and using sexual reproduction.

Genus containing around 250 species of shrubs and small trees, native to temperate and subtropical zones. All sumacs have a milky or resinous sap, which in a few species can cause a contact dermatitis. The sap is used for tannins, dyes, medicines, the leaves for smoking, the fruits for beverages and ground as spice in Middle Eastern cuisine, and the trees as ornamentals, soil binders, and cover plants valued for brilliant Fall color.

Any of various kinds of popular music typically having a strong rhythm and featuring a horn section. Originally and principally associated with African-American performers, particularly a style prominent during the late 1940s and 1950s derived from or influenced by the blues and jazz.

Bodies of water, smaller than a stream.

Motivo granulado de forro de libro introducido hacia el 1830.

Designa un puesto avanzado islámico, multifuncional y fortificado, generalmente reservado para aquellos soldados de la Fe que tienen a su cargo la defensa de las fronteras y el proselitismo.

Motivo garnulado de forro de libro usado entre 1833-1866.

Motif resembling ribbon, often in swirling, windblown forms, or in the form of a tied bow, with long streamer ends, seen in used on furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles.