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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous trees, the oaks, type of the apetalous order Cupuliferæ and of the tribe Quercineæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See
oak .
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- noun oaks
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If marriage is simply a religious ceremony (it is ANOT) than the Church should decide who can get married .. rather straight forward it seems to me. quercus in a quandry
Blitzer: This year, the Supreme Court hangs in the balance 2008
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-Of plants, seed: manu spargere semen: terra semen excepit: iacto semine, V.: quercus de semine Dodonaeo, O.
If you don't see it, you're part of the problem. Angry Professor 2008
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Sciendum est autem, piper ibi crescere in hunc modum: sicut nos plantamus vites aut quercus arbores robustas, vt vitis cum fructibus se spargat, vt supportetur per ramos, sic coluntur arbusta piperis ad arbores foresti, et sparguntur per ramos, et dependent fructus vt botri.
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Ab Hebron incipit vallis Mambræ, quæ protenditur ferè vsque Ierusalem: haud remotè ad Hebron est mons Mambre, et in ipso monte arbor quercus aridæ quæ pro antiquitate sui, speciale sibi nomen meruit in mundo vniuerso, vt vocetur arbor sicca:
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Sciendum est autem, piper ibi crescere in hunc modum: sicut nos plantamus vites aut quercus arbores robustas, vt vitis cum fructibus se spargat, vt supportetur per ramos, sic coluntur arbusta piperis ad arbores foresti, et sparguntur per ramos, et dependent fructus vt botri.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ab Hebron incipit vallis Mambr�, qu� protenditur fer� vsque Ierusalem: haud remot� ad Hebron est mons Mambre, et in ipso monte arbor quercus arid� qu� pro antiquitate sui, speciale sibi nomen meruit in mundo vniuerso, vt vocetur arbor sicca:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The umbrosa quercus, or shadowy oak, represented a play upon the two syllables dim-oak.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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