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A fasciata
Honeybee Hon"ey*bee`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
Crossarchus fasciatus
Mongoose Mon"goose, Mongoos Mon"goos, n. (Zo["o]l.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]
E fasciatus
Skink Skink, n. [L. scincus, Gr. ????.] [Written also scink.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincid[ae], common in the warmer parts of all the continents. Note: The officinal skink (Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species (Seps tridactylus) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus Eumeces, as the blue-tailed skink (E. fasciatus) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard (Oligosoma laterale) inhabits the Southern United States.
Fasciate
Fasciate Fas"ci*ate, Fasciated Fas"ci*a`ted, a. [L. fasciatus, p. p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See Fasces.] 1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage. 2. (Bot.) (a) Banded or compacted together. (b) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Broadly banded with color.
Fasciated
Fasciate Fas"ci*ate, Fasciated Fas"ci*a`ted, a. [L. fasciatus, p. p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See Fasces.] 1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage. 2. (Bot.) (a) Banded or compacted together. (b) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Broadly banded with color.
Fasciation
Fasciation Fas`ci*a"tion, n. The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
Hadropterus nigrofasciatus
Crabeater Crab"eat`er (kr[a^]b"[=e]t`[~e]r), n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The cobia. (b) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). (c) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
P fasciatus
Sand grouse (Zo["o]l.), any one of many species of Old World birds belonging to the suborder Pterocletes, and resembling both grouse and pigeons. Called also rock grouse, rock pigeon, and ganga. They mostly belong to the genus Pterocles, as the common Indian species (P. exustus). The large sand grouse (P. arenarius), the painted sand grouse (P. fasciatus), and the pintail sand grouse (P. alchata) are also found in India. See Illust. under Pterocletes. Sand hill, a hill of sand; a dune. Sand-hill crane (Zo["o]l.), the American brown crane (Grus Mexicana). Sand hopper (Zo["o]l.), a beach flea; an orchestian. Sand hornet (Zo["o]l.), a sand wasp. Sand lark. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small lark (Alaudala raytal), native of India. (b) A small sandpiper, or plover, as the ringneck, the sanderling, and the common European sandpiper. (c) The Australian red-capped dotterel ([AE]gialophilus ruficapillus); -- called also red-necked plover. Sand launce (Zo["o]l.), a lant, or launce. Sand lizard (Zo["o]l.), a common European lizard (Lacerta agilis). Sand martin (Zo["o]l.), the bank swallow. Sand mole (Zo["o]l.), the coast rat. Sand monitor (Zo["o]l.), a large Egyptian lizard (Monitor arenarius) which inhabits dry localities. Sand mouse (Zo["o]l.), the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.] Sand myrtle. (Bot.) See under Myrtle. Sand partridge (Zo["o]l.), either of two small Asiatic partridges of the genus Ammoperdix. The wings are long and the tarsus is spurless. One species (A. Heeji) inhabits Palestine and Arabia. The other species (A. Bonhami), inhabiting Central Asia, is called also seesee partridge, and teehoo. Sand picture, a picture made by putting sand of different colors on an adhesive surface. Sand pike. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish. Sand pillar, a sand storm which takes the form of a whirling pillar in its progress in desert tracts like those of the Sahara and Mongolia. Sand pipe (Geol.), a tubular cavity, from a few inches to several feet in depth, occurring especially in calcareous rocks, and often filled with gravel, sand, etc.; -- called also sand gall. Sand pride (Zo["o]l.), a small British lamprey now considered to be the young of larger species; -- called also sand prey. Sand pump, in artesian well boring, a long, slender bucket with a valve at the bottom for raising sand from the well. Sand rat (Zo["o]l.), the pocket gopher. Sand rock, a rock made of cemented sand. Sand runner (Zo["o]l.), the turnstone. Sand saucer (Zo["o]l.), the mass of egg capsules, or o["o]thec[ae], of any mollusk of the genus Natica and allied genera. It has the shape of a bottomless saucer, and is coated with fine sand; -- called also sand collar. Sand screw (Zo["o]l.), an amphipod crustacean (Lepidactylis arenarius), which burrows in the sandy seabeaches of Europe and America. Sand shark (Zo["o]l.), an American shark (Odontaspis littoralis) found on the sandy coasts of the Eastern United States; -- called also gray shark, and dogfish shark. See Illust. under Remora. Sand skink (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old World lizards belonging to the genus Seps; as, the ocellated sand skink (Seps ocellatus) of Southern Europe. Sand skipper (Zo["o]l.), a beach flea, or orchestian. Sand smelt (Zo["o]l.), a silverside. Sand snake. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of harmless burrowing snakes of the genus Eryx, native of Southern Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially E. jaculus of India and E. Johnii, used by snake charmers. (b) Any innocuous South African snake of the genus Psammophis, especially P. sibilans. Sand snipe (Zo["o]l.), the sandpiper. Sand star (Zo["o]l.), an ophiurioid starfish living on sandy sea bottoms; a brittle star. Sand storm, a cloud of sand driven violently by the wind. Sand sucker, the sandnecker. Sand swallow (Zo["o]l.), the bank swallow. See under Bank. Sand tube, a tube made of sand. Especially: (a) A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite. (b) (Zo["o]l.) Any tube made of cemented sand. (c) (Zo["o]l.) In starfishes, a tube having calcareous particles in its wall, which connects the oral water tube with the madreporic plate. Sand viper. (Zo["o]l.) See Hognose snake. Sand wasp (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the families Pompilid[ae] and Spherid[ae], which dig burrows in sand. The female provisions the nest with insects or spiders which she paralyzes by stinging, and which serve as food for her young.
Paradoxirus fasciatus
Musang Mu*sang", n. (Zo["o]l.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.
Sacrosciatic
Sacrosciatic Sa`cro*sci*at"ic, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.
Sciatheric
Sciatheric Sci`a*ther"ic, Sciatherical Sci`a*ther"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a sundial; ? a shadow + ? to hunt, to catch.] Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] --J. Gregory.
Sciatherical
Sciatheric Sci`a*ther"ic, Sciatherical Sci`a*ther"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a sundial; ? a shadow + ? to hunt, to catch.] Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] --J. Gregory.
Sciatherically
Sciatheric Sci`a*ther"ic, Sciatherical Sci`a*ther"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a sundial; ? a shadow + ? to hunt, to catch.] Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] --J. Gregory.
Sciatic
Sciatic Sci*at"ic, a. [F. sciatique, LL. sciaticus, from L. ischiadicus, Gr. ?. See Ischiadic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.
Sciatic
Sciatic Sci*at"ic, n. [Cf. F. sciatique.] (Med.) Sciatica.
sciatica
Ischiadic Is`chi*ad"ic, a. [L. ischiadicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the hip joint, hip or loin. Cf. Sciatic.] (Anat.) Ischial. [R.] Ischiadic passion or disease (Med.), a rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also sciatica.
Sciatica
Sciatica Sci*at"i*ca, n. [NL.] (Med.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.
Sciatical
Sciatical Sci*at"ic*al, a. (Anat.) Sciatic.
Sciatically
Sciatically Sci*at"ic*al*ly, adv. With, or by means of, sciatica.
Seriola fasciata
Bonito Bo*ni"to, n.; pl. Bonitoes. [Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bain[=i]t and bain[=i]th.] [Often incorrectly written bonita.] (Zo["o]l.) 1. A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast. 2. The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes. 3. The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies. 4. The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.
Trifasciated
Trifasciated Tri*fas"ci*a`ted, a. [Pref. tri- + fasciated.] Having, or surrounded by, three fasci[ae], or bands.

Meaning of Sciat from wikipedia

- October 1911, Ottoman forces m****acred captured Italian troops at Sciara Sciat (Arabic: Shar al-Shatt). In reprisal, Italian troops m****acred several thousand...
- and m****acre at Shar al-Shatt (Arabic: شارع الشط Shār’ ash-Shaṭ; Sciara Sciat in Italian) occurred on 23 October 1911 in the village of Shar al-Shatt...
- ignorance. The phrase, originally from Latin ("ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat"), is a possible paraphrase from a Gr**** text (see below). It is also quoted...
- and local Muslim guerrillas, such as a slaughter in Sciara Sciat: I saw (in Sciara Sciat) in one mosque seventeen Italians, crucified with their bodies...
- conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, 12 aut ne quis malus invidere possit, 13 **** tantum sciat esse basiorum. Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and the rumors of rather...
- atque auctius scire, quod quisque faciat, quam ipsum illud efficere, quod sciat ("It is much better to know what one does than to do what one knows"). See...
- started to show photographs of the m****acred Italian soldiers at Sciara Sciat to justify their revenge. Italian diplomats decided to take advantage of...
- partial setback for the Italian troops happened on 23 October in the Sciara Sciat m****acre, when the bad placement of the Italian troops near Tripoli led...
- of Military Valour after distinguishing himself in the battle of Sciara-Sciat (9 November 1911). He remained in Libya after the end of the war, parti****ting...
- and mutilation of Italian captives taken in an ambush at nearby Sciara Sciat. Over the course of three days, Libyan and Turkish men, women, and children...