Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The amended form of
Rutela .
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Examples
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There are several varieties of this species, under the names of intertexta, rufescens, rutila, subcrocea, and supertexta.
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A tibi quanta domus rutila testudine fulgens, conexusque ebori uirgarum argenteus ordo, argutumque tuo stridentia limina cornu! heu querulae iam sponte fores! uacat ille beatus carcer, et angusti nusquam conuicia tecti!
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Only three of them are mentioned by Miquel that have this quality, the _Cocos nucifera rutila_, _cupuliformis_ and _stupposa_.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Among them the _rutila_ [84] yields the best and most supple fibres, while those of the _stupposa_ are stiff and almost unbending.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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-- The _chakwâ_, male, and _chakwî_, female, is the ruddy goose or sheldrake, known to Europeans as the Brâhmanî duck, _Anas casarca_ or _Casarca rutila_.
Tales of the Punjab Flora Annie Steel 1888
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The figure that occurs so frequently on Buddhist monuments, is the Brahmanee goose (_casarka rutila_), which is not a native of Ceylon; but from time immemorial has been an object of veneration there and in all parts of
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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♦ vndas Cedere per fpinam rutila labente Corona Semper fufpicies; at tergi plurima verfum Ventre tenus fummo fiipera inter fidera cernes j 1085.
Arati Solensis Phaenomena et Diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita Buhle, Johann Gottlieb, 1763-1821, ed 1793
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