List of articles in "Species" category - Page 1483

Halimeda is a genus of green macroalgae. The algal body (thallus) is composed of calcified green segments. Calcium carbonate is deposited in its tissues making it inedible to most herbivores.As […]

Marsupella profunda (Western Rustwort) is a liverwort endemic to Europe and known only from Portugal (Azores and Madeira) Spain (Canary Islands) and Great Britain (Cornwall).

The zebra spider Salticus scenicus is a common jumping spider. Like other jumping spiders it doesn’t build a web. It uses its four pairs of large eyes to locate prey […]

Juniperus drupacea the Syrian Juniper is a species of juniper native to the eastern Mediterranean region from southern Greece (Parnon Oros Peloponnese) southern Turkey western Syria and Lebanon growing on […]

Machiavellianism is according to the Oxford English Dictionary the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct deriving from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli […]

Rising Fast (foaled 1949) was an outstanding New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate […]

Tiliacora triandra is a species of flowering plant native to mainland Southeast Asia and used particularly in the cuisines of northeast Thailand and Laos. In the Isan dialect of Lao […]

Juniperus excelsa commonly called the Greek Juniper is a juniper found throughout the eastern Mediterranean from northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria across Turkey to Syria and Lebanon and the Caucasus […]

Juniperus osteosperma (Utah Juniper; syn. J. utahensis) is a shrub or small tree reaching 3–6 m (rarely to 9 m) tall. It is native to the southwestern United States in […]

Twenty Grand (1928-1948) was an American thoroughbred race horse. Owned and bred by Helen Hay Whitney’s Greentree Stable Twenty Grand was a bay colt by St. Germans out of Bonus.