Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hogg's name (1830) of a kingdom of nature, more fully called
Regnum primigenum , the primigenal kingdom, composed of the same author's Protoctista, and corresponding to the Primalia of Wilson and Cassin, or the Protista of Haeckel.
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B. _Polyangium primigenum_, red fructification on dog's dung.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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: plagam iiorribilis caligo deinde fe - cuta eft« ima primigenum mors inopina fuit C A R M E N XXXV;
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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