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Remember that monosyllables are always anceps in English – they can take a stress or shrug it off, no matter how “important” they may seem.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Predominant grassland species include perennials such as Vossia cuspidata, Echinochloa stagnina, Jardinea congoensis, Setaria anceps, Hyparrhenia rufa, and Eragrostis sp., their distributions depending on the duration and depth of seasonal flooding.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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Lower forests have an understory of Myrsine kermadecensis, Lobelia anceps, Poa polyphylla, Coprosma acutifolia, and Coriaria arborea.
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I am guessing that they are juvenile Helisoma anceps, a planorbid snail family Planorbidae.
Archive 2006-09-01 AYDIN 2006
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Desperatis denique rebus, iterum ad mare, veluti ad anceps remedium recurritur.
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Hence the final syllable may be either long or short (syllaba anceps), and may terminate in a vowel or m, even though the next verse begins with a vowel.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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Ita neque caveri anceps malum, [362] neque a fortissimis infirmissimo generi resisti posse; juxta boni malique, strenui et imbelles inulti obtruncari.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Milites Romani, perculsi tumultu insolito, arma capere alii, alii se abdere, pars territos confirmare, trepidare [227] omnibus locis; vis magna hostium, coelum nocte atque nubibus obscuratum, periculum anceps, [228] postremo fugere an manere tutius foret, in incerto erat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ensiform: sword-shaped: two-edged, large at base and tapering to the point: see anceps.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The typical graptolites are, in the upper part, _Dicellograptus anceps_ and _D. complanatus_; in the lower part, _Pleurograptus linearis_ and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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