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21 Vicunia
VICUNA, or VICUNIA, or VICUGNAThe animal that provides the finest wool in the world with hairs only half as thick as fine merino wool. The vicuna is one of the camel tribe and is a native of Southern Peru. Its scientific name is Lama Vicunia. It is a graceful swift little animal like a small antelope. The annual production is estimated at 10,000-lb. to 12,000-lb. Weight for weight it is said to be the warmest of all wools. Its natural colour is dark tobacco colour of good fastness. It dyes like wool, but requires more dye to attain a given depth of tone. It is capable of imparting the utmost smoothness, softness and closeness to fine black coatings and is used thus by Bradford and other manufacturers. ———————— Another species or variety of the Genus Auchenia. See Alpaca (extract wool) -
22 Vicugna
VICUNA, or VICUNIA, or VICUGNAThe animal that provides the finest wool in the world with hairs only half as thick as fine merino wool. The vicuna is one of the camel tribe and is a native of Southern Peru. Its scientific name is Lama Vicunia. It is a graceful swift little animal like a small antelope. The annual production is estimated at 10,000-lb. to 12,000-lb. Weight for weight it is said to be the warmest of all wools. Its natural colour is dark tobacco colour of good fastness. It dyes like wool, but requires more dye to attain a given depth of tone. It is capable of imparting the utmost smoothness, softness and closeness to fine black coatings and is used thus by Bradford and other manufacturers. -
23 BOAT
[N]NAVIS (-IS) (F)GNAVIS (-IS) (F)LINTER (-TRIS) (F)LUNTER (-TRIS) (F)LEMBUS (-I) (M)CYMBA (-AE) (F)CUMBA (-AE) (F)MONERIS (-IS) (F)RATIS (-IS) (F)LINTRICULUS (-I) (M)PRORA (-AE) (F)ALVEUS (-I) (M)ALVUS (-I) (F)EQUUS LIGNEUS (M)EQUOS LIGNEUS (M)ECUS LIGNEUS (M)- LITTLE BOAT- SMALL BOAT- SMALL SWIFT ROW BOAT -
24 a flash in the pan
1) мимoлётный уcпex, бeзpeзультaтнaя, нeудaчнaя пoпыткa, фиacкo, oceчкa; лoпнулo кaк мыльный пузыpь [этим. вoeн. oceчкa пpи cтpeльбe из кpeмнёвoгo pужья]Of course it's only a flash in the pan... She'll never write anything else (W. S. Maugham)2) чeлoвeк, пoтepпeвший фиacкo или нe oпpaвдaвший нaдeждThere was little or no surprise that a play of mine should be so appallingly bad, for, in their minds at least I had never been anything but a flash in the pan, a playboy whose meteoric rise could only result in an equally meteoric fall into swift oblivion (N. Coward). He hinted that he might retire from the game, however, in three years' time but said: 'I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a while' (Morning Star) -
25 tern
Aleutian tern алеутская крачка, Sterna aleuticaAntarctic tern антарктическая крачка, Sterna vittataArctic tern полярная крачка, длиннохвостая крачка, Sterna paradiseablack tern чёрная крачка, Chlidonias nigerbridled tern чернокрылая крачка, Sterna anaethetuscommon tern обыкновенная крачка, речная крачка, Sterna hirundocrested tern крачка Берга, Sterna bergiigull-billed tern чайконосая крачка, Gelochelidon niloticaIndian river tern золотистая крачка, Sterna aurantialeast tern малая крачка, Sterna albifronslesser crested tern бенгальская крачка, Thalasseus bengalensislittle tern малая крачка, Sterna albifronsmarsh tern белощёкая крачка, Chlidonias hybridanoddy tern глупая крачка, Anous stolidusroseate tern розовая крачка, Sterna dougalliiroyal tern большая крачка, Thalasseus maximussandwich tern пестроносая крачка, Thalasseus sandvicensissooty tern тёмная крачка, Sterna fuscataswift tern крачка Берга, Sterna bergiiwhiskered tern белощёкая крачка, Chlidonias hybridawhite tern белая крачка, Gygis albawhite-winged black tern белокрылая крачка, Chlidonias leucopterusEnglish-Russian dictionary of biology and biotechnology > tern
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