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  • Typical aquatic vegetation may include water lilies (Nymphaea spp.) spatter dock (Nuphar advena).

    Everglades 2008

  • I also continued to obtain a few new birds, among which were two or three kinds of small hawks and falcons, a beautiful brush-tongued paroquet, Trichoglossus ornatus, and a rare black and white crow, Corvus advena.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Qui Roman in media quaeris novus advena Roma, et Romae in Roma nil reperis media, aspice murorum, praeruptaque saxa, obruptaque ingenti vasta theatra situ.

    languagehat.com: THE RUINS OF ROME. 2004

  • Peregrinus et advena sum vobiscum: date mihi haereditatem sepulchri vobiscum: et sepeliam mortuum meum a facie mea.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • (Ahasverus advena) · Scavengers live largely on dust, the excrements of other insects or dead insects.

    7. Important pests in storage 1996

  • After the hero had been initiated into the mysteries of Isis in Greece, he was received at Rome in the great temple of the Campus Martius, "fani quidem advena, religionis autem indigena."

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • In the water, Nuphar advena (yellow pond-lily), some potamogetons (pond-weed), Sagittaria variabilis (arrow-head), Sium lineare?

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Clockwise from top left: Ammonia beccarii, Elphidium excavatum clavatum, Buccella frigida, and Eggerella advena.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Omnia sunt oculis: raensse, quas advena primas Tunc adiit, dextrseque datse. '

    Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Honorable James Fox Trotter, John Bernard, 1775-1818 1812

  • (proselytos, stranger or newcomer; Vulgate, advena).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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