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7139731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf%20crocodile | Dwarf crocodile | The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis), also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile (a name more often used for the Asian mugger crocodile) or bony crocodile, is an African crocodile that is also the smallest extant (living) species of crocodile.
Description
Dwarf crocodiles attain a mediu... | Biology and health sciences | Crocodilia | Animals |
15946878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20steam%20sterilization | Soil steam sterilization | Soil steam sterilization (soil steaming) is a farming technique that sterilizes soil with steam in open fields or greenhouses. Pests of plant cultures such as weeds, bacteria, fungi and viruses are killed through induced hot steam which causes vital cellular proteins to unfold. Biologically, the method is considered a... | Technology | Pest and disease control | null |
9276466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis | Parthenogenesis | Parthenogenesis (; from the Greek + ) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which the embryo develops directly from an egg without need for fertilization. In animals, parthenogenesis means development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell. In plants, parthenogenesis is a component process of apomixis. In a... | Biology and health sciences | Biological reproduction | Biology |
5470669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20block | Fault block | Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by faults. Blocks are characterized by relatively uniform lithology. The largest of these fault blocks are called crusta... | Physical sciences | Montane landforms | Earth science |
5473867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%20side%20of%20the%20Moon | Near side of the Moon | The near side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces towards Earth, opposite to the far side. Only one side of the Moon is visible from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that the Moon orbits the Earth—a situation known as tidal locking.
The Moon is directly illuminated by the S... | Physical sciences | Solar System | Astronomy |
573875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement%20in%20quantum%20mechanics | Measurement in quantum mechanics | In quantum physics, a measurement is the testing or manipulation of a physical system to yield a numerical result. A fundamental feature of quantum theory is that the predictions it makes are probabilistic. The procedure for finding a probability involves combining a quantum state, which mathematically describes a quan... | Physical sciences | Quantum mechanics | Physics |
574544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20motion | Circular motion | In physics, circular motion is movement of an object along the circumference of a circle or rotation along a circular arc. It can be uniform, with a constant rate of rotation and constant tangential speed, or non-uniform with a changing rate of rotation. The rotation around a fixed axis of a three-dimensional body invo... | Physical sciences | Classical mechanics | Physics |
574796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callinectes%20sapidus | Callinectes sapidus | Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek ,"beautiful" + , "swimmer", and Latin , "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or, regionally, the Maryland blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.
C. sapidus is of cons... | Biology and health sciences | Crabs and hermit crabs | Animals |
574874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove%20crab | Mangrove crab | Mangrove crabs are crabs that live in and around mangroves. They belong to many different species and families and have been shown to be ecologically significant by burying and consuming leaf litter. Mangrove crabs have a variety of phylogenies because mangrove crab is an umbrella term that encompasses many species of ... | Biology and health sciences | Crabs and hermit crabs | Animals |
574964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorboat | Motorboat | A motorboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine; faster examples may be called "speedboats".
Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit. A... | Technology | Naval transport | null |
575135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submersible | Submersible | A submersible is an underwater vehicle which needs to be transported and supported by a larger watercraft or platform. This distinguishes submersibles from submarines, which are self-supporting and capable of prolonged independent operation at sea.
There are many types of submersibles, including both human-occupied ve... | Technology | Naval transport | null |
575176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifungal | Antifungal | An antifungal medication, also known as an antimycotic medication, is a pharmaceutical fungicide or fungistatic used to treat and prevent mycosis such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis (thrush), serious systemic infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, and others. Such drugs are usually obtained by a doctor's... | Biology and health sciences | Antifungals | Health |
575495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide%20%28skin%29 | Hide (skin) | A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use.
The word "hide" is related to the German word , which means skin. The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc.
Common commercial hid... | Technology | Materials | null |
575531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltoid%20muscle | Deltoid muscle | The deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder. It is also known as the 'common shoulder muscle', particularly in other animals such as the domestic cat. Anatomically, the deltoid muscle is made up of three distinct sets of muscle fibers, namely the
anterior or clavicular part (pars... | Biology and health sciences | Human anatomy | Health |
575590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20blue | Navy blue | Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue.
Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into... | Physical sciences | Colors | Physics |
575613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons%20of%20Jupiter | Moons of Jupiter | There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits . This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. All together, Jupiter's moons form a satellite system... | Physical sciences | Solar System | Astronomy |
575697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheminformatics | Cheminformatics | Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to the use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "in silico" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive problems in the field of chemistry, including in its applications to biology and rel... | Physical sciences | Basics_2 | Chemistry |
575749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons%20of%20Saturn | Moons of Saturn | The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. There are 146 moons with confirmed orbits, the most of any planet in the Solar System. This number does not include the many thousands of moonlets embedded ... | Physical sciences | Solar System | Astronomy |
575890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20mouse | House mouse | The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail. It is one of the most abundant species of the genus Mus. Although a wild animal, the house mouse has benefited significantly from associating with h... | Biology and health sciences | Rodents | Animals |
576108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20equation | Parametric equation | In mathematics, a parametric equation expresses several quantities, such as the coordinates of a point, as functions of one or several variables called parameters.
In the case of a single parameter, parametric equations are commonly used to express the trajectory of a moving point, in which case, the parameter is oft... | Mathematics | Basics | null |
576193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat%20toilet | Squat toilet | A squat toilet (or squatting toilet) is a toilet used by squatting, rather than sitting. This means that the posture for defecation and for female urination is to place one foot on each side of the toilet drain or hole and to squat over it. There are several types of squat toilets, but they all consist essentially of ... | Technology | Hydraulics and pneumatics | null |
576200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodendron | Philodendron | Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. , the Plants of the World Online accepted 621 species; other sources accept different numbers. Regardless of number of species, the genus is the second-largest member of the family Araceae, after genus Anthurium. Taxonomically, the genus Philodend... | Biology and health sciences | Monocots | null |
576517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydesdale%20horse | Clydesdale horse | The Clydesdale is a Scottish breed of draught horse. It takes its name from Clydesdale, a region of Scotland centred on the River Clyde.
The origins of the breed lie in the seventeenth century, when Flemish stallions were imported to Scotland and mated with local mares; in the nineteenth century, Shire blood was intro... | Biology and health sciences | Horses | Animals |
576681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedometer | Speedometer | A speedometer or speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the early 20th century, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards. Other vehicles may use devices analogous to the speedom... | Technology | Measuring instruments | null |
577188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsognathus | Compsognathus | Compsognathus (; Greek kompsos/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and gnathos/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to around the size of a chicken. They lived about 150 million years ago, during the Tithonian a... | Biology and health sciences | Theropods | Animals |
577301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude%20%28mathematics%29 | Magnitude (mathematics) | In mathematics, the magnitude or size of a mathematical object is a property which determines whether the object is larger or smaller than other objects of the same kind. More formally, an object's magnitude is the displayed result of an ordering (or ranking) of the class of objects to which it belongs. Magnitude as a ... | Mathematics | Linear algebra | null |
577307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20boring%20machine | Tunnel boring machine | A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole" or a "worm", is a machine used to excavate tunnels. Tunnels are excavated through hard rock, wet or dry soil, or sand, each of which requires specialized technology.
Tunnel boring machines are an alternative to drilling and blasting (D&B) methods and "hand mining".... | Technology | Transport infrastructure | null |
8644994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial%20vortex | Extraterrestrial vortex | An extraterrestrial vortex is a vortex that occurs on planets and natural satellites other than Earth that have sufficient atmospheres. Most observed extraterrestrial vortices have been seen in large cyclones, or anticyclones. However, occasional dust storms have been known to produce vortices on Mars and Titan. Variou... | Physical sciences | Planetary science | Astronomy |
11779912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20sediment | Marine sediment | Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor. These particles either have their origins in soil and rocks and have been transported from the land to the sea, mainly by rivers but also by dust carried by wind and by the flow of glacie... | Physical sciences | Oceanography | Earth science |
320320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum%20%28medicine%29 | Speculum (medicine) | A speculum (Latin for 'mirror'; : specula or speculums) is a medical tool for investigating body orifices, with a form dependent on the orifice for which it is designed. In old texts, the speculum may also be referred to as a diopter or dioptra. Like an endoscope, a speculum allows a view inside the body; endoscopes, ... | Biology and health sciences | Diagnostics | Health |
320336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20axe | Hand axe | A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. It is made from stone, usually flint or chert that has been "reduced" and shaped from a larger piece by knapping, or hitting against another stone. They are characteristic of the low... | Technology | Hand tools | null |
320351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic%20needle | Hypodermic needle | A hypodermic needle (from Greek ὑπο- (hypo- = under), and δέρμα (derma = skin)) is a very thin, hollow tube with one sharp tip. It is one of a category of medical tools which enter the skin, called sharps. It is commonly used with a syringe, a hand-operated device with a plunger, to inject substances into the body (e.g... | Technology | Equipment | null |
320509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine%20nut | Pine nut | Pine nuts, also called piñón (), pinoli (), or pignoli, are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, only 29 species provide edible nuts, while 20 are traded locally or internationally owing to their seed size being large enough to be worth harvesting... | Biology and health sciences | Nuts | Plants |
320568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-air%20missile | Air-to-air missile | An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft (including unmanned aircraft such as cruise missiles). AAMs are typically powered by one or more rocket motors, usually solid fueled but sometimes liquid fueled. Ramjet engines, as used on the Meteor, are emer... | Technology | Missiles | null |
320760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20fluid | Body fluid | Body fluids, bodily fluids, or biofluids, sometimes body liquids, are liquids within the body of an organism. In lean healthy adult men, the total body water is about 60% (60–67%) of the total body weight; it is usually slightly lower in women (52–55%). The exact percentage of fluid relative to body weight is inversely... | Biology and health sciences | Animal anatomy and morphology | Biology |
320861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20function | Constant function | In mathematics, a constant function is a function whose (output) value is the same for every input value.
Basic properties
As a real-valued function of a real-valued argument, a constant function has the general form or just For example, the function is the specific constant function where the output value is . T... | Mathematics | Specific functions | null |
321263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth%20defect | Birth defect | A birth defect is an abnormal condition that is present at birth, regardless of its cause. Birth defects may result in disabilities that may be physical, intellectual, or developmental. The disabilities can range from mild to severe. Birth defects are divided into two main types: structural disorders in which problems ... | Biology and health sciences | Disabilities | Health |
321365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20track | Railway track | A railway track ( and UIC terminology) or railroad track (), also known as permanent way () or "P Way" ( and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables t... | Technology | Trains | null |
321382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20flow%20%28ecology%29 | Energy flow (ecology) | Energy flow is the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem. All living organisms can be organized into producers and consumers, and those producers and consumers can further be organized into a food chain. Each of the levels within the food chain is a trophic level. In order to more efficiently show th... | Biology and health sciences | Ecology | Biology |
321438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20information | Perfect information | In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition. With perfect information in a market, all consumers and producers have complete and instantaneous knowledge of all market prices, their own utility, and own cost functions.
In game theory, a sequen... | Mathematics | Game theory | null |
321567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20diaphragm | Thoracic diaphragm | The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (; ), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity. The diaphragm is the most important muscle of respiration, and separates the thoracic cavity, containing the heart and lungs, from the abdominal... | Biology and health sciences | Respiratory system | Biology |
321671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation | Tessellation | A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries.
A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include r... | Mathematics | Geometry | null |
321796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Paint | Microsoft Paint | Microsoft Paint (commonly known as MS Paint or Paint for short) is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. The program opens, modifies and saves image files in Windows bitmap (BMP), JPEG, GIF, PNG, and single-page TIFF formats. The program can be in color mode or t... | Technology | Multimedia_2 | null |
321814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula | Fibula | The fibula (: fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity is small, placed toward the back of the head of the ti... | Biology and health sciences | Skeletal system | Biology |
321869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20theory | Coding theory | Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are studied by various scientific disciplines—such as information theory, electrical ... | Mathematics | Discrete mathematics | null |
321940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot%20ant | Honeypot ant | Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously. Other ants then extract nourishment from them, through the process of trophallaxis. They function as living larders. Ho... | Biology and health sciences | Hymenoptera | Animals |
321957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4%20carbine | M4 carbine | The M4 carbine (officially Carbine, Caliber 5.56 mm, M4) is a 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the United States during the 1980s. It is a shortened version of the M16A2 assault rifle. The M4 is extensively used by the US military, with decisions to largely replace the M16 rifle in US Army (starting 2010) and ... | Technology | Specific firearms | null |
322091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping | Beekeeping | Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hiv... | Technology | Forms | null |
322105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangosteen | Mangosteen | Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), also known as the purple mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree with edible fruit native to Island Southeast Asia, from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo. It has been cultivated extensively in tropical Asia since ancient times. It is grown mainly in Southeast Asia, southwest India and ot... | Biology and health sciences | Other culinary fruits | Plants |
322177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile%20cancer | Penile cancer | Penile cancer, or penile carcinoma, is a cancer that develops in the skin or tissues of the penis. Symptoms may include abnormal growth, an ulcer or sore on the skin of the penis, and bleeding or foul smelling discharge.
Risk factors include phimosis (inability to retract foreskin of the penis), chronic inflammation, ... | Biology and health sciences | Cancer | Health |
322197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension%20headache | Tension headache | Tension headache, stress headache, or tension-type headache (TTH), is the most common type of primary headache. The pain usually radiates from the lower back of the head, the neck, the eyes, or other muscle groups in the body typically affecting both sides of the head. Tension-type headaches account for nearly 90% of a... | Biology and health sciences | Specific diseases | Health |
322239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20hare | European hare | The European hare (Lepus europaeus), also known as the brown hare, is a species of hare native to Europe and parts of Asia. It is among the largest hare species and is adapted to temperate, open country. Hares are herbivorous and feed mainly on grasses and herbs, supplementing these with twigs, buds, bark and field cro... | Biology and health sciences | Lagomorphs | Animals |
322376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20succession | Ecological succession | Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time.
The process of succession occurs either after the initial colonization of a newly created habitat, or after a disturbance substantially alters a pre-existing habitat. Succession that begins in new habitats, un... | Biology and health sciences | Ecology | Biology |
322553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurysm | Aneurysm | An aneurysm is an outward bulging, likened to a bubble or balloon, caused by a localized, abnormal, weak spot on a blood vessel wall. Aneurysms may be a result of a hereditary condition or an acquired disease. Aneurysms can also be a nidus (starting point) for clot formation (thrombosis) and embolization. As an aneurys... | Biology and health sciences | Injury | null |
322562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trionychidae | Trionychidae | Trionychidae is a family of turtles, commonly known as softshell turtles or simply softshells. The family was described by Leopold Fitzinger in 1826. Softshells include some of the world's largest freshwater turtles, though many can adapt to living in highly brackish waters. Members of this family occur in Africa, Asia... | Biology and health sciences | Turtles | Animals |
322578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherback%20sea%20turtle | Leatherback sea turtle | The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights of . It is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochely... | Biology and health sciences | Turtles | Animals |
322604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamidae | Agamidae | Agamidae is a family containing 64 genera, 582 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards.
Overview
Phylogenetically, they may be sister to the Iguanidae, and have a similar appearance. Agamids usually have... | Biology and health sciences | Iguania | Animals |
322628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiliscus%20%28lizard%29 | Basiliscus (lizard) | Basiliscus is a genus of large corytophanid lizards, commonly known as basilisks, which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. The genus contains four species, which are commonly known as the Jesus Christ lizard, or simply the Jesus lizard, due to their ability to run across water ... | Biology and health sciences | Iguania | Animals |
322654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyloidae | Dactyloidae | Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles () and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfamily, Dactyloinae, of the family Iguanidae. In the past they were included in... | Biology and health sciences | Iguania | Animals |
322664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguanidae | Iguanidae | The Iguanidae is a family of lizards composed of the iguanas, chuckwallas, and their prehistoric relatives, including the widespread green iguana.
Taxonomy
Iguanidae is thought to be the sister group to the collared lizards (family Crotaphytidae); the two groups likely diverged during the Late Cretaceous, as that is ... | Biology and health sciences | Iguania | Animals |
322730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibamidae | Dibamidae | Dibamidae or blind skinks is a family of lizards characterized by their elongated cylindrical body and an apparent lack of limbs. Female dibamids are entirely limbless and the males retain small flap-like hind limbs, which they use to grip their partner during mating. They have a rigidly fused skull, lack pterygoid tee... | Biology and health sciences | Lizards and other Squamata | Animals |
322739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacertidae | Lacertidae | The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia. It is a diverse family with at about 360 species in 39 genera. They represent the dominant group of reptiles found in Europe.
Habitat
The European and Mediterranean species of lacertids live... | Biology and health sciences | Lizards and other Squamata | Animals |
322882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teiidae | Teiidae | Teiidae is a family of Lacertoidean lizards native to the Americas. Members of this family are generally known as whiptails or racerunners; however, tegus also belong to this family. Teiidae is sister to the Gymnopthalmidae, and both families comprise the Teiioidea. The Teiidae includes several parthenogenic species – ... | Biology and health sciences | Lizards and other Squamata | Animals |
322886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordylidae | Cordylidae | Cordylidae is a family of small- to medium-sized lizards that occur in southern and eastern Africa. They are commonly known as girdled lizards, spinytail lizards, or girdle-tail lizards.
Cordylidae is closely related to the family Gerrhosauridae, occurring in Africa and Madagascar. These two scientific families of liz... | Biology and health sciences | Lizards and other Squamata | Animals |
323221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20dog | Sun dog | A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in atmospheric science, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo.
The sun dog is a member of the family of halos caused by the refr... | Physical sciences | Atmospheric optics | Earth science |
14447311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%20cabbage | Napa cabbage | Napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, or Brassica rapa Pekinensis Group) is a type of Chinese cabbage originating near the Beijing region of China that is widely used in East Asian cuisine. Since the 20th century, it has also become a widespread crop in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. In much of the world... | Biology and health sciences | Leafy vegetables | Plants |
10802532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeotheriidae | Palaeotheriidae | Palaeotheriidae is an extinct family of herbivorous perissodactyl mammals that inhabited Europe, with less abundant remains also known from Asia, from the mid-Eocene to the early Oligocene. They are classified in Equoidea, along with the living family Equidae (which includes zebras, horses and asses).
Morphology
Pala... | Biology and health sciences | Perissodactyla | Animals |
10802893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratidae | Protoceratidae | Protoceratidae is an extinct family of herbivorous North American artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) that lived during the Eocene through Pliocene. While early members of the group were hornless, in later members males developed elaborate cranial ornamentation. They are variously allied with Ruminantia or Tylopoda.
Cl... | Biology and health sciences | Other artiodactyla | Animals |
1519419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo%20%28watercourse%29 | Arroyo (watercourse) | An arroyo ( (from Spanish arroyo (, "brook"))) or wash is a dry watercourse that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain. Flash floods are common in arroyos following thunderstorms. It's akin to the Catalan rambla, which stems from the Arabic rámla, "dry river".
Similar landforms are referred t... | Physical sciences | Hydrology | Earth science |
1520435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20seadragon | Common seadragon | The common seadragon or weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) is a marine fish of the order Syngnathiformes, which also includes the similar pipefishes, seahorses, and trumpetfishes among other species. Adult common seadragons are a reddish colour, with yellow and purple striped markings; they have small, leaf-lik... | Biology and health sciences | Acanthomorpha | Animals |
1521467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20plate | Caribbean plate | The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
Roughly in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate. These borders are regions of intense se... | Physical sciences | Tectonic plates | Earth science |
1522271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon%20Canis%20Majoris | Epsilon Canis Majoris | Epsilon Canis Majoris is a binary star system and the second-brightest star in the constellation of Canis Major. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinised from ε Canis Majoris, and abbreviated Epsilon CMa or ε CMa. This is the 22nd-brightest star in the night sky with an apparent magnitude of 1.50. About 4.7 mi... | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
1522331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20horizon | Soil horizon | A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath. Horizons are defined in many cases by obvious physical features, mainly colour and texture. These may be described both in absolute terms (particle size distribution f... | Physical sciences | Soil science | Earth science |
6985160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture%20%28geology%29 | Fracture (geology) | A fracture is any separation in a geologic formation, such as a joint or a fault that divides the rock into two or more pieces. A fracture will sometimes form a deep fissure or crevice in the rock. Fractures are commonly caused by stress exceeding the rock strength, causing the rock to lose cohesion along its weakest... | Physical sciences | Structural geology | Earth science |
979990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20color | Secondary color | A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors of a given color model in even proportions. Combining two secondary colors in the same manner produces a tertiary color. Secondary colors are special in traditional color theory, but have no special meaning in color science.
Overview
Primary color
In tra... | Physical sciences | Basics | Physics |
980126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphead%20wrasse | Humphead wrasse | The humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) is a large species of wrasse mainly found on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. It is also known as the Māori wrasse, Napoleon wrasse, Napoleon fish, so mei 蘇眉 (Cantonese), mameng (Filipino), and merer in the Pohnpeian language of the Caroline Islands.
Description
The hum... | Biology and health sciences | Acanthomorpha | Animals |
980257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros | Diospyros | Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs. The majority are native to the tropics, with only a few species extending into temperate regions. Individual species valued for their hard, heavy, dark timber, are commonly known as ebony trees, while others are valued for their fruit... | Biology and health sciences | Ericales | null |
980345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier | Espalier | Espalier ( or ) is the horticultural and ancient agricultural practice of controlling woody plant growth for the production of fruit, by pruning and tying branches to a frame. Plants are frequently shaped in formal patterns, flat against a structure such as a wall, fence, or trellis, and also plants which have been sha... | Technology | Horticulture | null |
980916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20rhinoceros | White rhinoceros | The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 16,803
wil... | Biology and health sciences | Perissodactyla | Animals |
981252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20crust | Oceanic crust | Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates. It is composed of the upper oceanic crust, with pillow lavas and a dike complex, and the lower oceanic crust, composed of troctolite, gabbro and ultramafic cumulates. The crust overlies the rigid uppermost layer of the mantle. The crust... | Physical sciences | Tectonics | Earth science |
981546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria%E2%80%93Megler%20Bridge | Astoria–Megler Bridge | The Astoria–Megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through-truss bridge in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States that spans the lower Columbia River. It carries a section of U.S. Route 101 from Astoria, Oregon, to Point Ellice near Megler, Washington. Opened in 1966, it is the longest continuous truss bridge i... | Technology | Bridges | null |
983374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosaurus | Ankylosaurus | Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in geological formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68–66 million years ago, in western North America, making it among the last of the non-avian dinosaurs. It was named by Barnum Brown in 1908; it is monotypic, containi... | Biology and health sciences | Ornitischians | Animals |
983423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47%20Tucanae | 47 Tucanae | 47 Tucanae or 47 Tuc (also designated as NGC 104 and Caldwell 106) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is about from Earth, and 120 light years in diameter. 47 Tuc can be seen with the naked eye, with an apparent magnitude of 4.1. It appears about 44 arcminutes across including its far outrea... | Physical sciences | Notable star clusters | Astronomy |
983904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%206946 | NGC 6946 | NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years or 7.72 megaparsecs, similar... | Physical sciences | Notable galaxies | Astronomy |
2991134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20water%20dragon | Chinese water dragon | Physignathus cocincinus is a species of agamid lizard native to southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. It is commonly known as the Chinese water dragon, Indochinese water dragon, Asian water dragon, Thai water dragon, or green water dragon.
Chinese water dragons are large diurnal lizards adapted for dense subtrop... | Biology and health sciences | Iguania | Animals |
2992637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20dating | Relative dating | Relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily determining their absolute age (i.e., estimated age). In geology, rock or superficial deposits, fossils and lithologies can be used to correlate one stratigraphic co... | Physical sciences | Geochronology | Earth science |
2996328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae | Belostomatidae | Belostomatidae is a family of freshwater hemipteran insects known as giant water bugs or colloquially as toe-biters, Indian toe-biters, electric-light bugs (because they fly to lights in large numbers), alligator ticks, or alligator fleas (in Florida). They are the largest insects in the order Hemiptera. There are abou... | Biology and health sciences | Hemiptera (true bugs) | Animals |
7143953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparasitic | Antiparasitic | Antiparasitics are a class of medications which are indicated for the treatment of parasitic diseases, such as those caused by helminths, amoeba, ectoparasites, parasitic fungi, and protozoa, among others. Antiparasitics target the parasitic agents of the infections by destroying them or inhibiting their growth; they a... | Biology and health sciences | Antiparasitic | Health |
7149361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20dodecahedron | Regular dodecahedron | A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron is a dodecahedron composed of regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at each vertex. It is an example of Platonic solids, described as cosmic stellation by Plato in his dialogues, and it was used as part of Solar System proposed by Johannes Kepler. However, the regular... | Mathematics | Three-dimensional space | null |
7149700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacocephala | Thylacocephala | The Thylacocephala (from the Greek or , meaning "pouch", and or meaning "head") are group of extinct probable mandibulate arthropods, that have been considered by some researchers as having possible crustacean affinities. As a class they have a short research history, having been erected in the early 1980s.
They ty... | Biology and health sciences | Fossil arthropods | Animals |
13280372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limb%20%28anatomy%29 | Limb (anatomy) | A limb (from Old English lim, meaning "body part") is a jointed, muscled appendage of a tetrapod vertebrate animal used for weight-bearing, terrestrial locomotion and physical interaction with other objects. The distalmost portion of a limb is known as its extremity. The limbs' bony endoskeleton, known as the appendicu... | Biology and health sciences | External anatomy and regions of the body | Biology |
13283176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20water%20buffalo | Wild water buffalo | The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and wild buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has been listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List since 1986, as the remaining population totals less than 4,000. A population decline of at le... | Biology and health sciences | Bovidae | Animals |
13288318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Flash%20Storage | Universal Flash Storage | Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a flash storage specification for digital cameras, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. It was designed to bring higher data transfer speed and increased reliability to flash memory storage, while reducing market confusion and removing the need for different adapters for diffe... | Technology | Non-volatile memory | null |
15967917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20citrate | Sodium citrate | Sodium citrate may refer to any of the sodium salts of citric acid (though most commonly the third):
Monosodium citrate
Disodium citrate
Trisodium citrate
The three forms of salt are collectively known by the E number E331.
Applications
Food
Sodium citrates are used as acidity regulators in food and drinks, and a... | Physical sciences | Citrates | Chemistry |
9293603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth | Mouth | The mouth is the body orifice through which many animals ingest food and vocalize. The body cavity immediately behind the mouth opening, known as the oral cavity (or in Latin), is also the first part of the alimentary canal, which leads to the pharynx and the gullet. In tetrapod vertebrates, the mouth is bounded on th... | Biology and health sciences | Digestive system | null |
2166413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosella | Rosella | Rosellas are in a genus that consists of six species and nineteen subspecies.
These colourful parrots from Australia are in the genus Platycercus.
Platycercus means "broad-tailed" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet is mainly s... | Biology and health sciences | Psittaciformes | Animals |
2167305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareiasauria | Pareiasauria | Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles. Members of the group were armoured with osteoderms which covered large areas of the body. They first appeared in southern Pangea during the Middle Permian, before becoming globally distributed during the Late Permian. Pareias... | Biology and health sciences | Parareptilia | Animals |
2167405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20shrimp%20farming | Marine shrimp farming | Marine shrimp farming is an aquaculture business for the cultivation of marine shrimp or prawns for human consumption. Although traditional shrimp farming has been carried out in Asia for centuries, large-scale commercial shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to match the market d... | Technology | Aquaculture | null |
2167409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater%20prawn%20farming | Freshwater prawn farming | A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawns or shrimp for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming. Unique problems are introduced by the developmental life cycle of the m... | Technology | Aquaculture | null |
2168763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyn | Reyn | In fluid dynamics, the reyn is a British unit of dynamic viscosity,
named in honour of Osbourne Reynolds, for whom the Reynolds number is also named.
Conversions
By definition,
1 reyn = 1 lbf s in−2.
It follows that the relation between the reyn and the poise is approximately
1 reyn = 6.89476 × 104 P.
In SI units, vi... | Physical sciences | Viscosity | Basics and measurement |
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