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The grass cover includes Stipagrostis uniplumis, Aristida meridionalis, A. congesta, Eragrostis pallens, E. superba, Heteropogon contortus, Cymbopogon excavatus, and Digitaria eriantha.
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# -- In this deformity, which is known also as _hollow claw-foot_, _pes arcuatus_, or _pes excavatus_, the longitudinal arch of the foot is exaggerated as a result of the approximation of the balls of the toes to the heel (Fig. 150).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Mr. Frank E. Beddard has kindly communicated to me some remarkable variations he has observed in the internal organs of a species of earthworm (Perionyx excavatus).
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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There's another type known as the Oichnus excavatus, a different type of octopus, again known only from its boreholes.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Eudrilus eugeniae (African nightcrawler) and Perionyx excavatus
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Some species of composting worms are native to temperate climate, such as Eisenia foetida (tiger worm or red wiggler), Dendrobaena veneta (European nightcrawler) and Lumbicus rubellus (red worm), while some come from the tropics such as Eudrilus eugeniae (African nightcrawler) and Perionyx excavatus (Indian blueworm).
Vermicompost 2008
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Habitat ad caput bonae Ipei, futtirali major.excavatus. 409.
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