ornamentation resembling worm-holes or worm-tracks, as is found in mosaic pavements and rusticated masonry. See alsomotion;worms -Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: ...
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.As a gardener, there's nothing more frustrating than finding a prized vegetable crop being eaten by insect pes...
Gould, S.J., Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History, Harmony Books, New York, p. 302, 1998.Gould S.J. 1997. Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History. Harmony, New York, 422 pp....
Students choose a word from their current vocabulary or spelling list and write it inside the worm. That is the key word for the activity. On each plant, write what type of word will be written on its roots. Use a different color for each category, such as "person," "thing," "relate...
resistant, but its darker orange cousin, Tainong 66, is plagued () by insect pests.To find out why, the team offered up Tainong 57 and 66 plants to hungry African cotton leafworm caterpillars (毛虫).Both plants released at least 40 airborne compounds as the caterpillars snacked on their ...
e. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling. f. To let fall; drop: cast anchor. g. To roll or throw (dice, for example). h. To draw (lots). 2. To shed; molt: The snake cast its skin. 3. To deposit or indicate (a ballot or vote). 4. To turn or direct: All eyes were...
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?
The figurativebookwormbegan its career as an insult, a wholly negative term for someone who reads too much. Thewormin that epithet for the constant reader does not refer to larvae or the earthworm, as some children's library posters might have you believe, and does not allude to the figurat...
A saying is a short wis e statement that usually gives advic e or expresses som e truth about life.When in Rome, do as th e Romans do.(When you ar e in a foreign country or a situation you ar e not familiar with, you shoul d behav e in the way that th e peopl e aroun d...
And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. IX Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history, X Or sign that they were bent ...