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• mat — mat1 [mæt] n [Date: 700 800; : Late Latin; Origin: matta] 1.) a small piece of thick rough material which covers part of a floor ▪ Wipe your feet on the mat. 2.) a small flat piece of wood, cloth etc which protects a surface, especially on a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bas-mât — [ bama ] n. m. • 1831; de 1. bas et mât ♦ Partie inférieure d un mât composé. Des bas mâts. ● bas mât, bas mâts nom masculin Partie inférieure d un mât, de l emplanture à la hune. ⇒BAS MÂT, subst. masc. MAR. Partie inférieure d un mât à brisure  …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• weed mat — aquatic vegetation forming an almost complete coverage of the water surface; favoured by fish as a protected area from predators and insolation …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• bryophyte — bryophytic /bruy euh fit ik/, adj. /bruy euh fuyt /, n. Bot. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts. [1875 80; < NL Bryophyta name of the group; see BRYO , PHYTE] * * * Any of the green,… …   Universalium

• tropical rainforest — Introduction also spelled  tropical rain forest        luxuriant forest, generally composed of broad leaved trees and found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator.  Rainforests are vegetation types dominated by broad leaved trees …   Universalium

• bog — bog1 boggish, adj. /bog, bawg/, n., v., bogged, bogging. n. 1. wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter. 2. an area or stretch of such ground. v.t., v.i. 3. to sink in or as if in a bog (often fol. by down): We… …   Universalium

• Evolutionary history of life — Although evidence of early life is scarce and often difficult to interpret, it appears that life appeared on Earth relatively soon (on the geologic time scale) after the planet had cooled enough for liquid water to be present. The dominant theory …   Wikipedia

• Northern Basin and Range (ecoregion) — The Northern Basin and Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. It contains dissected lava plains, rolling… …   Wikipedia

• Northern Basin and Range ecoregion — This article is about the ecoregion designated by the EPA. For the associated geographical feature, see Great Basin. Level III ecoregions in the Pacific Northwest. The Northern Basin and Range (80) borders the Sierra Nevada (5), Eastern Cascades… …   Wikipedia

• Heard Island and McDonald Islands — Heard Island Nickname: HIMI Satellite image of the southern tip of Heard Island. Cape Arkona is seen on the left side of the image, with Lied Glacier just above and Gotley Glacier just below. Big Ben Volcano and Mawson Peak are seen at the lower… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological succession — Succession after disturbance: a boreal forest one (left) and two years (right) after a wildfire. Ecological succession, is the phenomenon or process by which a community progressively transforms itself until a stable community is formed. It is a… …   Wikipedia