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The bird is a green heron (butorides virescens) - a common heron of the eastern US.
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The bird is a green heron (butorides virescens) - a common heron of the eastern US.
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Green dragontail (Lamproptera meges virescens) (Photograph by Chin Fah Shin)
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A few kilometers outside the Park and summit area, congenerics found include the legume Adenocarpus foliosus, the bugloss Echium virescens and the daisy Argynantemum frutescens.
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The endemic São Tomé green pigeon (Treron australis virescens) and the São Tomé olive pigeon (Columbus thomensis) are occasionally shot.
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Neem showed considerable potential for controlling various insect pests such as Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura, S. exigua, Hellula undalis, Phyllocnistis citrella, Helicoverpa armigera, Ohiomyia phaseloi, Nephotettix virescens and spider mites
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The greenish Russula, _Russula virescens_, like a number of other plants, has long been recommended for food, both in Europe and in this country.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The "green" or _Russula virescens_ may be peeled, cut into thin slices, mixed with the leaves of water-cress which have been picked carefully from the stems, covered with French dressing, and served on slices of tomato.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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These various tints are all well reproduced in Mimeta virescens, the chief want of exact imitation being that the throat and breast of the Tropidorhynchus has a very scaly appearance, being covered with rigid pointed feathers which are not imitated in the Mimeta, although there are signs of faint dusky spots which may easily furnish the groundwork of a more exact imitation by the continued survival of favourable variations in the same direction.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Faba, E. (Zebra) _ a fine _Navicula, _ perhaps the same with _N. major_ and _Fragilaria (virescens).
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