oka

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By a series of hops on all-fours he reached a temple opposite Nishi-no-oka, and thence by the western road he arrived at Yamazaki, and began to ascend the mountain called Tenôzan.

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  1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
  2. a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints
  3. a Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds

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  • The two boys who ought to have come last year are very anxious to do so still July 12th.—We anchored the boat on the beach at Tawatana, and I went into the oka (public house) to see the tauma prepared for the feast. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • Mori D, Yano Y, Toyo-oka K, Yoshida N, Yamada M, et al. (2007) NDEL1 phosphorylation by Aurora-A kinase is essential for centrosomal maturation, separation, and TACC3 recruitment. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Not until the time of the powerful King A['s]oka, in the third century B.C., do numerals appear in any inscriptions thus far discovered; and then only in the primitive form of marks, quite as they would be found in Egypt, Greece, Rome, or in {20} various other parts of the world. —  The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • But long before either the A['s]oka or the N[=a]n[=a] Gh[=a]t inscriptions the Chinese were using the horizontal forms for the first three numerals, but a vertical arrangement for four. —  The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • After A['s]oka, and perhaps among the merchants of earlier centuries, the horizontal forms may have come down into India from China, thus giving those of the N[=a]n[=a] Gh[=a]t cave and of later inscriptions. —  The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
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