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  • Swine usually do not carry S. aureus, and the staph species they do harbor—S. sciuri, S. lentus, S. hyicus—do not infect humans.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Swine usually do not carry S. aureus, and the staph species they do harbor—S. sciuri, S. lentus, S. hyicus—do not infect humans.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Swine usually do not carry S. aureus, and the staph species they do harbor—S. sciuri, S. lentus, S. hyicus—do not infect humans.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • The suffixes - ōsus and - lentus denote _fullness_; as, -- perīculōsus, _full of danger_, glōriōsus, _glorious_;

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The Romans supposed it made people indolent and torpid, therefore they named the plant from _lentus_, slow.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi, he warbled; and I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale, until he reached tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • It takes its name from lentus ‘slow,’ and, according to Pliny, produces mildness and moderation of temper.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • It takes its name from lentus ‘slow,’ and, according to Pliny, produces mildness and moderation of temper.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Sic neque putrescentium lignorum lux sui calore destituitur; nam ipsa puetredo quidam lentus ignis est.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • My book has met with a reception beyond what the spe lentus, pavidusque futuri, dared to expect.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

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