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The most common species in cultivation is Trachycarpus fortunei ( Chusan Palm or Windmill Palm ), a temperate palm which is, in cultivated range, the northernmost palm species in the world, having been successfully grown in such cool and damp but relatively mild locales such as Scotland, southwestern Norway, south and southwest Iceland, southwestern British Columbia Canada, extreme southwestern Utah, coastal New Jersey and the panhandle of Alaska.
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As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
Bridges, tunnels and ferries are the most common methods of river crossings.
Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).
The most common are the twist drill, the solid center shaft with interchangeable cutting blades, the double spur bit, and the power wood bit.
The common ultimate values, ends and goals fostered by religion are a most important factor.
There is a common problem behind most of these federal question and diversity cases.
The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.
One of the most common of camp maladies was diarrhoea.
the most common type of letter was that of soldier husbands to their wives.
The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.
Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.
The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.
Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow.
When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.
The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.
The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.
The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.
There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).
For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.
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On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
In the adult state they have tear ducts and movable eyelids and most species have ears that can detect airborne or ground vibrations.
Although most species are associated with water and damp habitats, some are specialised to live in trees and in deserts.
In addition, most species of amphibian have granular glands that secrete distasteful or poisonous substances.
Larvae and most aquatic adult amphibians excrete the nitrogen as ammonia in large quantities of dilute urine while terrestrial species, with a greater need to conserve water, excrete the less toxic product urea.
In air, where oxygen is more concentrated, some small species can rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange, most famously the plethodontid salamanders, which have neither lungs nor gills.
In many species of frog and in most lungless salamanders ( Plethodontidae ), direct development takes place, the larvae growing within the eggs and emerging as miniature adults.
Tadpoles do not have true teeth but, in most species, the jaws have long, parallel rows of small keratinized structures called keradonts surrounded by a horny beak.
In most species, the sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs over the vocal cords into an air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth.
Although in many frog species, females are larger than males, this is not the case in most species where males are actively involved in territorial defence.
One seed-to-seed life cycle for an annual can occur in as little as a month in some species, though most last several months.
Thus although most species in the order are herbaceous, some no more than 15 cm high, there are a number of climbers ( e. g. some species of Asparagus ), as well as several genera forming trees ( e. g. Agave, Cordyline, Yucca, Dracaena ), some of which can exceed 10 m in height.
The order is a cosmopolite ( plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones ), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees ( such as the giant Lobelia and the giant Senecio ) and shrubs are also present.
Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.
** Eunectes beniensis, the Bolivian anaconda, the most recently defined species, is found in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.
However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.
A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.
The abbey is a species of " exempt religious " in that it is, for the most part, answerable to the Pope, or to the abbot primate, rather than to the local bishop.
The most comprehensive treatment of the family considers 56 species valid, with 18 additional subspecies.
The Andes is rich in fauna: With almost 3, 500 species, of which roughly 2 / 3 are endemic to the region, the Andes is the most important region in the world for amphibians.
Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.
The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.
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