Términos

Casa de vecindad característica de Bombay y de otras ciudades industriales indias. Se desarrolló originalmente a finales del siglo XIX para alojar a los trabajdores industriales emigrantes.

Raíz de una hierba de las Indias Orientales que produce un colorante rojo.

Pequeñas hendidoras dobles con bordes paralelos.

Se refiere a la cultura de la nación moderna de la República Checa o en general a las culturas que han ocupado el área de la nación moderna en Europa central. También se usa para referirse ampliamente a la cultura de los pueblos Bohemios.

Edible substance consisting of the curd of milk (coagulated by rennet), separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass.

Tools used to remove a sample of a cheese wheel to test the taste, aroma, texture, and color for maturity.

Small, hand-held devices resembling an apple corer, used to extract a small plug sample from the center of the cheese wheel, in order for it to be evaluated for taste and texture.

Professional cooks, specifically head cooks in restaurants, hotels, or other food service organizations.

Family containing five genera, with 25 or more living species of dwarf, mouse, and fork-crowned lemurs, all from Madagascar, including the smallest living primates. The number of species cannot be precisely given, as new species continue to be discovered; they date from the Holocene.

Organic chemical compounds capable of forming coordinate bonds with metals. Chelating agents are used to sequester or remove residual trace metal ions from materials to which they have attached. In a conservation context, uses of chelants include stabilizing of paper containing iron-gall ink, removal of iron residue from platinum prints; treatment of excavated copper objects.

Transitional sub-Saharan African Stone Age cultural period thought to be characterized by five stages of hand-axe industry occurring near the Olduvai Gorge.

Members of a subphylum including scorpions, spiders, mites, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders, all of which have six pairs of appendages.

Moneda inglesa de plata o cuproníquel, valorada en doce peniques y acuñada desde mediados del siglo XVI hasta 1970.

Término general para monedas con denominación en chelín.

Moneda de plata alemana, emitida desde el siglo XV hasta mediados del XIX; también moneda austríaca del siglo XX.

Family of sea turtles containing 5 extant genera.