Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of beetles of the subfamily Asidinæ, containing numerous wingless species with ovate bodies, inhabiting desert regions of Europe and North America.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Potato salad, carne asida (ph) --
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Potato salad, carne asida (ph) --
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(asida) to produce proud-flesh; thus every female slave captured by the slave-hunters is marked to prove her identity and to improve her charms.
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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In the case of the girls, their mothers "divested them of a cord which was worn during their childhood, fastened round the loins, having a small shell that hung in front ( 'una conchuela asida que les venia a dar encima de la parte honesta' -- Landa).
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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