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Acacia Adansonii
Gonakie Go"na*kie, n. (Bot.) An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).
Adansonia
Adansonia Ad`an*so"ni*a, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C. Eaton.
Adansonia digitata
Monkey-bread Mon"key-bread`, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
Adansonia digitata
Baobab Ba"o*bab, n. [The native name.] (Bot.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Adansonia Gregorii
Sour Sour, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.] 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour countenance.' --Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. 4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.' --Shak. 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel. Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia. Sour grapes. See under Grape. Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo. Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.

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- Hasarius adansoni, known commonly as Adanson's house jumper, is a species of jumping spider that is common in warm regions around the world, often ****ociated...
- Natica adansoni is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Natica adansoni Blainville, 1825...
- Lasaea adansoni is a species of bivalves belonging to the family Lasaeidae. The species has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Earlier, one subspecies (Lasaea...
- Mangelia adansoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. Originally placed in Cythara Schumacher, 1817, an unaccepted...
- Columbella adansoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. E' presente in areale relittuale...
- Species: S. adansonii Binomial name Synoicus adansonii (Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851) Synonyms Excalfactoria adansonii Coturnix adansonii Coturnix adansoni...
- NHMSYS0021185099 Open Tree of Life: 5492052 WoRMS: 459448 ZooBank: E3A9D38A-73D4-4400-A55B-E3EE88116B4D Petaloconchus adansoni Wikidata: Q7171634 GBIF: 4360427...
- Coralliophila adansoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Coralliophila adansoni Kosuge...
-  pouchet Binomial name Hemicycla pouchet Ferussac , 1821 Synonyms Hemicycla adansoni Hemicycla (Adiverticula) pouchet (A. Férussac, 1821)· accepted, alternate...
- 1798 Lambis carnea Röding, 1798 Lambis fasciatus Gmelin, 1807 Strombus adansoni DeFrance, 1827 Strombus auratus Spalowsky, 1795 Strombus bubo Deshayes...