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Euryale   Listen
noun
Euryale  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (Euryale ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.





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"Euryale" Quotes from Famous Books



... even in the ripe seed a proper coat for the embryo, the original attachment of whose radicle to the apex of this coat may also continue. This, at least, seems to me the most probable explanation of the structure of true Nymphaeaceae, namely, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Euryale, Hydropeltis, and Cabomba, notwithstanding their very remarkable germination, as observed and figured in Nymphaea and ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King


Words linked to "Euryale" :   Gorgon, subclass Euryalida, Euryalida


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