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webster

A weaver; originally, a female weaver.

Origin: AS. Webbestre. See Web, Weave, and -ster.


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Frog Skeleton Help

Wow - LOTS of spelling errors, top to bottom. Visual aids - http://www.k-state.edu/organismic/images/frog_skeleton.jpg http://visual.merriam-webster.com/images/animal-kingdom/amphibians/frog/skeleton-frog.jpg

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by Darby
Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:23 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Frog Skeleton Help
Replies: 1
Views: 5262

Re: Analysis: Corucia ssp. integrades ?

... the abstract, I had no idea what this paper would entail, and since it seems lengthy, I rather not read it. 3. I looked in my biology dictionary, webster, and dictionary.com, but nowhere could I find the word integrade. Is this a misspelling? Perhaps a term that is more common should be used, ...

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by MichaelXY
Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:48 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Analysis: Corucia ssp. integrades ?
Replies: 2
Views: 2011

Re: Are any of these "alive": prions, viroids, virions?

... dead. How sad... Maybe it all comes down to metabolism: viroids, virions and transposons do pretty much all the stuff mentioned e.g. in Merriam-Webster or that Wikipedia article, save from their own metabolism. But even metabolism is a shaky criterion: unless other things than Jesus can rise ...

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by biohazard
Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:22 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Are any of these "alive": prions, viroids, virions?
Replies: 10
Views: 2753

Are any of these "alive": prions, viroids, virions?

... order to convert that entity into its own form and function, and does so in order to persist and reproduce itself. Definition of LIFE from Merriam-Webster: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction Definition of life from Wikipedia: ...

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by Tyred
Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:36 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Are any of these "alive": prions, viroids, virions?
Replies: 10
Views: 2753

The Fiber Disease

Here's one for you guys: On page 649 of my Tormont Webster's Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary, I find the third definition for the word, "Fodder" as follows: 3. People viewed as raw material for the achievement of a specified commercial, ...

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by codon blue
Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:12 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 749836
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