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  • noun botany Any member of the genus Eugenia of myrtaceous plants.

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From the genus name.

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Examples

  • I just picked up eugenia bone's well-preserved books to do a little more of this this summer.

    37 Jars and Counting kat 2009

  • O link da galeria é este: USS - A Portfolio of Probabilities i09 | Five large scale attempts to change the course of human evolution O io9 olha para o passado e para o presente, e lista algumas das mais importantes interferências humanas na evolução da espécie, da eugenia à fertilização in vitro.

    Leituras Artur 2008

  • Guardian | A shameful history Os recentes comentários racistas de James Watson, prémio nobel e um dos investigadores que descreveu a estrutura do ADN, talvez sejam um pouco mais do que efeitos de uma hipotética senilidade; talvez sejam reflexo de uma velha tradição das ciências biológicas, sempre reprimida mas que vai não vai regressa à ribalta: a ideia de eugenia, ou de manipulação da selecção natural para aperfeiçoar a espécie humana.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • É uma velha ideia, que já se revelou coo projectos de esterilzação de deficientes mentais ou criminosos, e que teve a sua epítome nas horrendas leis eugénicas nazis; a genética veio dar um novo fôlego aos proponentes da eugenia.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • Guardian | Nazi eugenics, Virginia Woolf and the morality of designer babies A grande virtude do nazismo está em ter enterrado de vez com os ideais de eugenia.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • For thirty miles the track passes under the deep shade of coco palms, of which Puna is the true home; and from under their feathery shadow, and from amidst the dark leafage of the breadfruit, gleamed the rose-crimson apples of the eugenia, and the golden balls of the guava.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • At some distance from Hilo there is a glorious burst of tropical forest, and then the track passes into green grass dotted over with clumps of the pandanus and the beautiful eugenia.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • A trailing eugenia bears dark red flowers shaped like a mop, and a tiny white lily with petals and strangely protuberant anthers scents the air as with honey and almonds.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • I was in one of the many courtyards I'd noticed during my first vi a grassy rectangle rimmed on three sides by a h: edge of eugenia.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • CHAPTER THREE eugenia was kept busy for some time.

    Heidelberg Wedding Neels, Betty 1984

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