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scrub pine (wood)
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Wood from any of several Australasian and American trees, most of them pines.
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scrub pine (plants)
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General term for any of several Australasian and American trees, most of them pines.
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scrublands
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Plant communities comprising low trees, bushes, and shrubs, often together with herbs and grasses.
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scrunchies
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Circular ties made to hold hair in place. Usually made of bunched fabric, often colorful.
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scrutoire (cabinet)
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Se refiere a cabinets, generalmente con un frente abatible usado para escribir. Un scrutoire puede también ser un conjunto de cabinets puestos en una mesa, que es usada para escribir. Fue popular en Francia, Inglaterra y América a comienzos del siglo XVIII, pero también fue usado con posterioridad. En el uso moderno, se diferencia generalmente de "escritoire" o "secreter" por tener chiribitiles pequeños y cajoneras sobre la superficie de escritura; sin embargo los tres términos son usado indistintamente.
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SCSI
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Standard input/output communications ports to control peripherals on the Macintosh platform. Peripherals may include hard drives, printers, flash drives, and other such communication devices. The SCSI allows fast communication between devices and now allows for multiple peripherals to be used in a single port.
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sculpsit
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Meaning "carved [it]," in printmaking indicates the one who engraved the plate or carved the wood block.
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sculpture studios (organizations)
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Studios in which one or more master sculptors create works, supervise assistants, and instruct pupils.
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Scurius carolinensis (species)
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Members of a species of tree squirrel native to the eastern and midwestern United States and southeastern Canada, having a gray coat with reddish overtones, a white belly, and a large bushy tail.
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scutching (general process)
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The process of removing rough or unsuitable parts of a material during processing. Examples of use are in reference to processing fibers, tanning of leather, processing bark, or processing stone.
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scutching knives (leatherworking knives)
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Knives used to smooth leather during tanning. For tools used to smooth stone, use "scotches." For wooden tools used for smoothing and beating fibers, use "swingles."
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scutum
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Escudo largo originado en Italia y utilizado por la infantería pesada romana desde el siglo VIII a. C. hasta el siglo V a. C., Fueron de forma rectangular u oval, originariamente de madera o mimbre, más tarde de madera recubierta de cuero con una protuberanciacentral de metal y un espinazo longitudinal en la parte trasera.
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- scuta
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scyphi
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Drinking cups, usually footed and having two handles but sometimes only one handle; typically refers to ancient vessels of this type. They are distinguised from kylikes by having deeper bowls.
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Scyphozoa (clase)
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Class containing around 200 species of cup animals, including some jellyfish. Life histories commonly involve alternation of a very small polyp with a medusa that develops from an ephyra released by the polyp. They are divided by four longitudinal septa producing tetramerous radial symmetry; gonads are endodermal. They have marginal sensory structures (rhopalia) with statocysts and/or ocelli. They are most abundant in coastal waters, but oceanic species exist.
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scythe sharpener holder
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scythe sharpening anvil
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scythe sharpening stone
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sea gooseberries
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General term referring to either of two cosmopolitan genera of invertebrate marine animals in the Pleurobrachiidae family, the Hormiphora and the Pleurobrachia.
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sea lilies
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General term for any member of the class Crinoidea having a stalk that secures it to the ocean bottom, in contrast to other members of the class that can travel. Sea lilies have a cup-shaped body mounted on a stalk with branched, feathery arms studded with tube feet that trap food and convey it to the mouth in the center of the upper side; native to deep ocean.
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Sea Peoples
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Confederation of tribes, primarily aggressive seafarers, who invaded eastern Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age, in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE. They may be associated with the Philistines, among other groups.
