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meadow beauty

(Encyclopedia)meadow beauty, any plant of the genus Rhexia, herbaceous perennials of wet places E of the Rockies, particularly damp pine barrens and sands along the southeast coast. A widespread species, R. virgini...

kratom

(Encyclopedia)kratom, drug obtained from the leaves of the tropical evergreen tree Mitragyna speciosa, also called kratom, a relative of the coffee tree found in Southeast Asia. The leaves are chewed, boiled for a ...

Mahoning

(Encyclopedia)Mahoning məhōnˈĭng [key], river, c.90 mi (140 km) long, rising in NE Ohio, E of Canton. It flows northwest to Alliance, then northeast past Warren, where it turns southeast to flow past Youngstown...

mudskipper

(Encyclopedia)mudskipper, name for fish of several genera in the subfamily Oxudercinae of the goby family, found in coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans and on the Atlantic coast of Africa. The typically...

Malay Archipelago

(Encyclopedia)Malay Archipelago, great island group of SE Asia, formerly called the East Indies. Lying between the Asian mainland and Australia, and separating the Pacific Ocean from the Indian Ocean, it includes B...

Verner, Karl Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Verner, Karl Adolf vûrˈnər, Dan. kärl äˈdôlf vĕrˈnər [key], 1846–96, Danish philologist. Verner was a librarian at the Univ. of Halle (now in E Germany) and a professor of Slavonic languag...

Chautauqua Lake

(Encyclopedia)Chautauqua Lake shətôˈkwə [key], 18 mi (29 km) long and from 1 to 3 mi (1.6–4.8 km) wide, W N.Y., SW of Buffalo, in a resort, vineyarding, and orcharding area. Jamestown lies at its southeast en...

Quechua

(Encyclopedia)Quechua, Kechua kēchˈwä [key], linguistic family belonging to the Andean branch of the Andean-Equatorial stock of Native American languages (mainly in South America). Encompassing far more native ...

Lud

(Encyclopedia)Lud, in the Bible, eponym of an Asian people, probably the Lydians. There is probably textual confusion at some points with the Lubim. ...

Hokan-Siouan

(Encyclopedia)Hokan-Siouan hōˈkən-so͞oˈən [key], linguistic stock, or family, whose member languages are spoken by Native Americans in North and Central America. See Native American languages. ...