Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Robstown

(Encyclopedia)Robstown, city (1990 pop. 12,849), Nueces co., S Tex.; inc. 1912. It is a railroad junction and a packing and shipping center for a blackland region that produces cotton, sorghum, and oil. There is oi...

Corsicana

(Encyclopedia)Corsicana kôrsĭkănˈə [key], city (2020 pop. 25,109), seat of Navarro co., E central Tex.; inc. ...

Coffeyville

(Encyclopedia)Coffeyville kôˈfēvĭlˌ, kŏfˈē– [key], city (2020 pop. 8,826), Montgomery co....

Wainwright

(Encyclopedia)Wainwright, town (1991 pop. 4,732), E Alta., Canada, SE of Edmonton and near the Sask. border. It is a trade center and railroad division point for an oil and natural gas area. It has oil refineries, ...

linseed cake

(Encyclopedia)linseed cake, concentrated feed for livestock, prepared by pressing into cakes linseed from which most of the oil has been removed. The amount of oil remaining in the cake varies; the seed husks may o...

Dallas

(Encyclopedia)Dallas, city (2020 pop. 1,304,379), seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its three forks; inc. 1871. The third largest ...

Wusu

(Encyclopedia)Wusu wo͞o-so͞o [key], town and oasis, N Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Dzungarian basin. It is an oil-producing center in the great Karamay oil fields. ...

Pointe-Noire

(Encyclopedia)Pointe-Noire pwăNt-nwär [key], city (1984 pop. 294,203), SW Republic of the Congo, Africa, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. Offshore oil drilling and oil refining are the city's most important economic...

jatropha

(Encyclopedia)jatropha jăˈtrəfə [key], any plant of a widely distributed genus (Japtropha) of perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees in the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family), native to tropical areas of the West...