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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bromelia (Nidularium)Karatas, a plant allied to the pineapple, native in South America and the West Indies. It is one of the fiber-yielding species of Bromelia, and is sometimes called
silkgrass . - noun [capitalized] A genus of monocotyledonous plants of the natural order Bromeliaceæ closely related to Bromelia, from which it differs chiefly in having the flowers in dense, sessile, terminal heads among the upper leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (
Nidularium Karatas ).
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East. 38 year old Turkish man Murat Karatas was arrested for the murder and sexual assault of the artist.
May 2008 2008
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Next year could be "the year of M&A for Turkey," according to Sinan Borovali, a founding partner at Karatas Yildiz Borovali, an Istanbul law firm that helped Turkish social gaming developer Peak Games raise an initial round of funding from German venture capital firm Hummingbird Ventures.
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