Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rosaceous tree of Chili: same as
muermo .
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Examples
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Strobel found the diesel-producing fungus in a Patagonia rainforest in Argentina in 2002 and collected a variety of specimens, including the branches from an ancient family of trees known as 'ulmo'.
India eNews 2008
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Mycodiesel n. Natural diesel fumes secreted by a fungus living in the Patagonian ulmo tree.
Jargon Watch: Eco-Crunch, Pre-Pre-Pre-SAT, Space Invaders 2009
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Mycodiesel n. Natural diesel fumes secreted by a fungus living in the Patagonian ulmo tree.
Jargon Watch: Eco-Crunch, Pre-Pre-Pre-SAT, Space Invaders 2009
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Secundinus solus sub ulmo frondosa separatim, et est signum crucis in eo loco usque in hunc diem.
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Equally charming and sincere in tone is the description of the delights of the simple life: parvula securo tegitur mihi culmine sedes uvaque plena mero fecunda pendet ab ulmo. dant rami cerasos, dant mala rubentia silvae
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Maenalides teneras ducunt per sacra choreas, tibia laeta canit, pendet sacer hircus ab ulmo et iam nudatis ceruicibus exuit exta.
Redeunt Saturnia Regna Anonymous 1912
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NYCTILVS atque Micon nec non et pulcer Amyntas torrentem patula uitabant ilice solem, cum Pan uenatu fessus recubare sub ulmo coeperat et somno lassatas sumere uiris; quem super ex tereti pendebat fistula ramo.
Pan 1912
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_Piscium et summa genus haesit ulmo_ ... for twenty seconds, rubbing his eyes, he stared at the apparition as it very slowly faded.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The 'myco-diesel' fungus Gliocladium roseum, which grows inside the ulmo tree in northern Patagonia
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G. roseum was discovered growing beneath the bark of an ulmo tree in northern Patagonia.
billingsgazette.com 2008
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