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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
Ornithology
  • a branch of zoology dealing with the study of birds.
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Orchidaceae Juss.
  • a very large family of highly specialized perennial herbaceous monocotyledonous plants. Plants are distributed throughout the world, especially in wet tropics.
  • commonly known as the orchid family
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Oral History 0 0
Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link (2)
  • Oleaceae are woody plants native to forested regions. Most members are trees or shrubs, but a minority, such as most jasmines, are woody climbers. Plants of the family are distributed throughout the world, except for the Arctic; they are especially abundant in tropical and temperate Asia. The tropical and warm-temperate species are evergreen; those from the colder North Temperate Zone are deciduous.
  • the olive family
  • A number of plants in the family are of economic or aesthetic importance: the olive tree is the source of olives and olive oil; the ashes (genus Fraxinus) are noted for their hardwood timber; and many genera are famous for their horticultural merit—e.g., Syringa (lilacs), Jasminum (jasmines), Ligustrum (privets), Forsythia (golden bell), and Osmanthus (tea olive).
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Naxi (Chinese people)

Use for: Nakhi (Chinese people)

  • An ethnic group of China who live mainly in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces; some live in Tibet. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language that is closely related to that of the Yi and were estimated in the early 21st century to number more than 300,000.
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Nature Print 1 0
Natural History Society 1 0
Natural History (14)
  • 1: a treatise on some aspect of nature
  • 2: the natural development of something (such as an organism or disease) over a period of time
  • 3: the study of natural objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view
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Mycology 4 0
Musical instruments
  • any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.
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