Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of opisthoparian trilobites with distinctly lobed glabella, seventeen thoracic segments, and extremely small pygidium. Sao hirsuta is a well-known form, abundant in the Cambrian rocks of Bohemia, whose ontogeny has been fully described by Barrande.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.

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Examples

  • i get to see them play this sunday here in sao paulo. jealous yet? sigh, too bad i have to leave these beautiful ladies to come back home. vou sentir saudades!

    audio/visual (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • Chuko is full of clever military strategies, like sending ships full of uniforms stuffed with straw to act as targets for T'sao T'sao's forces, who riddle the uniforms with arrows -- just when Liu Bei's forces are short of arrows!

    The Yin Blog 2010

  • As for people in the US referring to themselves as "part this or part that" that stems mostly from people of more recent immigrant decent and is the same in Brazil amongst people in places such as sao paulo.

    Home 2009

  • As for people in the US referring to themselves as "part this or part that" that stems mostly from people of more recent immigrant decent and is the same in Brazil amongst people in places such as sao paulo.

    Home 2009

  • As for people in the US referring to themselves as "part this or part that" that stems mostly from people of more recent immigrant decent and is the same in Brazil amongst people in places such as sao paulo.

    Home 2009

  • As for people in the US referring to themselves as "part this or part that" that stems mostly from people of more recent immigrant decent and is the same in Brazil amongst people in places such as sao paulo.

    Home 2009

  • These days bows are very advanced, sao you can be fine at 50-60.

    For a first time bow hunter is a 70lb draw too much? What is the most common 50-60lb? 2009

  • As politicas de combate a pobreza adotadas pelo Governo ainda nao sao eficazes.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Petroleum, elections and poverty matters 2009

  • Then you have the sao called politicians in Washington who have done nothing but make promises and broken them, I am tired of bailing everyone out but me .... jeff

    CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP 2009

  • These days bows are very advanced, sao you can be fine at 50-60.

    For a first time bow hunter is a 70lb draw too much? What is the most common 50-60lb? 2009

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