Trousset encyclopedia

KERCH (formerly Panticapaeum or Bosporus), Crimean city on the Strait of Yenikale, commanding the entrance to the Sea of Azof, 170 km (105.63 miles) east-northeast of Simferopol; Pop. approximately 22.450. The present-day city is …Read more »

WAXWING substantive Ornithology – Name given to a group of birds of the genus cotinga⁽¹⁾, especially remarkable because the tip of the secondary feathers on its wings widens into smooth oval red discs. The Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus, Linn.) is a …Read more »

KILKENNY. — I. County in Ireland in the province of Leinster; 2,053 km2 ; pop. 109.310. Its surface is slightly bumpy, with a few hills about 300 m high. The River Nore runs across the county, which is bounded on East and South by rivers Barrow and Suir. Abundance of anthracite of lower quality. Quarry of beautiful black marble near Kilkenny. Various stone pillars of the …Read more »

GUAIACUM OFFICINALE substantive Botany – Member of the zygophyllaceae family, which includes several species of American trees, whose wood is hard, heavy and resiniferous.
— Encycl. The main species of the genus Guaiacum is Guaiacum officinale, which is native to the Caribbean and Central America, and whose trunk can …Read more »

FUNCHAL the capital of the Madeira island, on the South-East coast; pop. 23 000. It is built on a wide …Read more »

HARPA substantive Malacology – Genus of gastropod molluscs, family buccinidae, which includes about a dozen species living in the deep waters and muddy lands …Read more »

GRAPTOLITE substantive (Gr. graphein, to write; lithos, rock). Genus of acaleph fossils, which includes at least 20 species found only in Silurian rocks …Read more »