Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tree-frogs of the family Hylidæ.
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- noun cricket frogs
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Examples
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Their urine is most part pale, and low coloured, urina pauca acris, biliosa (Areteus), not much in quantity; but this, in my judgment, is all out as uncertain as the other, varying so often according to several persons, habits, and other occasions not to be respected in chronic diseases.
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Fuscini derepente tanta acris caligo et terraemotus, ut multi capite dolerent, plurimus cor moerore et melancholia obrueretur.
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As my friend Michael Putnam has noted, "Solvitur acris hiems" is Horace I. 4 (the misnumbering can be explained by the fact that I had recently been working with Propertius IV. 2).
Pears Before Swine Rowland, Ingrid D. 2004
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Some have a stomach also, and attached to this the rest of the gut, either simple or convoluted as in the case of the acris or grasshopper.
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And of insects some are derived from insect congeners, as the venom-spider and the common-spider from the venom-spider and the common-spider, and so with the attelabus or locust, the acris or grasshopper, and the tettix or cicada.
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Fig. 206 represents a specimen of _Ranunculus acris_, in which the lower and lateral flower-stalks were not only increased in number, but so much lengthened as to form a flat-topped inflorescence -- a corymbose cyme.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Elongation of flower-stalk, _Ranunculus acris_ 436 207.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Ranunculus Lingua_, _R. acris_, _Papaver somniferum_, and others of this genus, _Saponaria sp.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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"Salvitur acris hiems gratâ vice veris et Favoni,"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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_Ranunculus acris_ and _R. bulbosus_ are erect, hairy meadow plants, the latter having the stem swollen at the base, and distinguished also by the furrowed flower-stalks and the often smaller flowers with reflexed, not spreading, sepals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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