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noun
Valonia  n.  
1.
The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Quercus vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains an abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.





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... the unpublished journal already so often referred to will amuse the reader:—"We arrived at the foot of Mount Tabor. It is, in its general outline, a round, regular-shaped hill, but is rocky and rough enough when it is to be ascended. It has many trees, mostly Valonia oaks. It stands on the east of the great Plain of Esdraelon, up a recess formed by Mount Hermon on the one side, and the hills towards Nazareth on the other. Its height from the plain I should guess at 1000 feet. We ascended the ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell


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