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Stavropol

(Encyclopedia)Stavropol stäˈvrəpəl [key], city (1989 pop. 318,000), capital of Stavropol Territory, S European Russia, on the Stavropol Plateau. It has machine-tool, wool, leather, grain milling, and food-proce...

Tracy

(Encyclopedia)Tracy, city (1990 pop. 33,558), San Joaquin co., central Calif., in the San Joaquin valley; inc. 1910. It is a railroad junction in a cattle and dairying region. Grapes, sugar beets, grain, fruit, nut...

Ussuriysk

(Encyclopedia)Ussuriysk o͝oˌso͝orēskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 158,000), Maritime Territory, Russian Far East, on the Suyfun River. It is a coal-mining center and a Trans-Siberian RR junction. A direct rail line...

Baoding

(Encyclopedia)Baoding or Paoting both: bou-dĭng [key], city, central Hebei prov., China. It is a port on the Fu River and ...

Prokopyevsk

(Encyclopedia)Prokopyevsk prəkôpˈyĭfsk [key], city (1989 pop. 274,000), E Siberian Russia. A coal-producing city of the Kuznetsk Basin, it also manufactures mining machinery, chemicals, and food products. It wa...

saprophyte

(Encyclopedia)saprophyte săpˈrəfītˌ [key], any plant that depends on dead plant or animal tissue for a source of nutrition and metabolic energy, e.g., most fungi (molds) and a few flowering plants, such as Ind...

root crop

(Encyclopedia)root crop, vegetable cultivated chiefly for its edible roots, e.g., the beet, turnip, mangel-wurzel, carrot, and parsnip. All root crops have a large water content and grow best in deeply cultivated s...

Portales

(Encyclopedia)Portales pôrtălˈĭs [key], city (1990 pop. 10,690), seat of Roosevelt co., E N.Mex., near the Tex. line; inc. 1910. It is the trade and processing center of an agricultural area. There is food proc...

Ballarat

(Encyclopedia)Ballarat bălˈərătˈ [key], city, Victoria, SE Australia. It is an industrial center; clothing, ...

Beloit

(Encyclopedia)Beloit bəˈloit [key], city (2020 pop. 36,657), Rock co., S Wis., on the Rock River; inc. 18...