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  • Its dental characteristics could be described from the P. kelyus subfossil maxilla fragment, showing a crista obliqua, a parastyle and a highly developed mesostyle.

    New Extinct Lemur Species Discovered In Madagascar | Impact Lab 2009

  • Pink turtlehead, Chelone obliqua is just beginning to bloom.

    Mish Mash Monday August 10 « Fairegarden 2009

  • At high altitudes, normally on more fertile soils and associated with Nothofagus, tall forests of E. obliqua and E. fastigata occur.

    Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia 2008

  • Red turtlehead, Chelone obliqua is just beginning to open.

    August Bloom Day Delights « Fairegarden 2008

  • Over large areas, either of two eucalypts, messmate stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua and Smithton peppermint Eucalyptus nitida, is found emergent from rain forest, the former species on the better soils in the east and the latter on the poorer soils mainly in the west.

    Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

  • Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa).

    Southeast Australia temperate forests 2007

  • Oratio obliqua, oratio recta: an essay on metarepresentation, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

    Facts Mulligan, Kevin 2007

  • But if you throw the dialogue into the ‘oratio obliqua,’ the passage will run thus: The priest came and prayed Apollo that the

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Pests - among the insects attacking the leaves of sweet potato are leaf folders (Brachmia spp.), Bihar hairy caterpillar (Diacrisia obliqua), both in South-East Asia and Indonesia, and sweet potato hornworm (Agrius convolvuli) throughout the eastern hemisphere; in the western hemisphere, army worm (Spodoptera sp.), Alabama argillacea and Manduca singulata are often serious.

    Chapter 30 1987

  • Aerial seeding of forest trees commenced in Australia on a trial basis some 20 years ago with a small number of eucalypts (Eucalyptus regnans, E. delegatensis, E. nitens, E. globulus, E. viminalis, and E. obliqua) and with Monterey pine (Pinus radiata).

    4 Australian Experience 1981

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