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wastebasket and what
* Using a wastebasket made of a rhinoceros foot borrowed from Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Troy made what appeared to be rhinoceros tracks across campus and to the lake that was the source of drinking water for the area, Beebe Lake.
Many disparately related species were subsequently added to the Rhynchocephalia, resulting in what taxonomists call a " wastebasket taxon ".
Sometimes, during taxonomic revisions, the wastebasket taxa can be salvaged after doing thorough research on its members, and then imposing tighter restrictions on what continues to be included.

wastebasket and .
Look in the wastebasket.
This class is something of a wastebasket ; its ambers are not polymerized, but mainly consist of cedrane-based sesquiterpenoids.
It has not been demonstrated that the Nilo-Saharan languages constitute a valid genetic grouping, and it has been seen as Greenberg's ' wastebasket ' phylum, into which he placed all the otherwise unaffiliated non-click languages of Africa.
The name became a wastebasket taxon, rather like the dinosaur Megalosaurus, to label any pterosaur remains that could not be distinguished other than by the absence of teeth.
In the 19th century, the Mesozoa were a wastebasket taxon for multicellular organisms which lacked the invaginating gastrula which was thought to define the Metazoa.
This is a wastebasket article combining rights that were too important to remain unmentioned, but too unimportant to warrant a separate article status.
The old taxon Triturus was found to be a wastebasket taxon, and the smooth newt was transferred to Lissotriton together with the other small-bodied newts.
* Safety flap – this flap covers cutters when the shredder head is removed from the wastebasket.
* Safety interlock switch – this switch ensures the shredder will not activate when the shredder head is removed from the wastebasket.
In the past, the grouping was used as a wastebasket taxon for a variety of small to very small, relatively unspecialised, insectivorous mammals.
Gobo must go out into Doc's workshop to retrieve the postcards from the wastebasket where Doc throws them.
The general angrily threw the letter in the wastebasket, Mr. Nakasone was later told.
He died on April 23, 1983 of a heart attack after tripping over a wastebasket in his Scottsdale, Arizona home.
As a child she noted certain rituals by her nanny, a Gullah woman ; for instance, the woman would burn strands of Dash's hair that came loose after combing, rather than throwing them in a wastebasket.
This family traditionally has been something of a wastebasket taxon, including ornithopods that were neither hypsilophodontids or hadrosaurids.
In Raymond Chandler's second draft script — which Hitchcock ceremoniously dropped into the wastebasket while daintily holding his nose — the final shot is Guy Haines, institutionalized, bound in a straitjacket.
While malignant fibrous histiocytoma ( MFH )-now generally called " pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma "-primary in bone is known to occur occasionally, current paradigms tend to consider MFH a " wastebasket " diagnosis, and the current trend is toward using specialized studies ( i. e. genetic and immunohistochemical tests ) to classify these undifferentiated tumors into other tumor classes.
The genus was a wastebasket taxon, and many of its members have been reclassified in smaller genera, most notably the Everlastings, now in the genus Xerochrysum.
However, as almost all members of Paraselachimorpha are poorly understood, most experts suspect this taxon to be either paraphyletic or a wastebasket taxon.
J. Willis Stovall and Wann Langston, Jr. first assigned it to the " Antrodemidae ," the equivalent of Allosauridae, but it was transferred to the taxonomic wastebasket Megalosauridae by Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956.

stood and near
The man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.
Drenched and shaking, he stood near the sweet-smelling stall and dared to pat her muzzle.
The poet's ashes were buried beside, or beneath, a boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home ( destroyed by fire in 1957 ) stood ; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder.
Phosphate and copra entrepreneur John T. Arundel visited the island in 1909 and near the beach landing on the western shore a tumbled, pyramidal day beacon made from slats of wood was repaired, painted white and stood at least until 1942.
When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
" When a young man stood before him for sentencing after admitting to stealing jewels from a parcel, the defendant's wife stood near him, infant daughter in her arms, and Landis mused what to do about the situation.
His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood ; and the pine-trees that shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.
The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.
: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.
The town boasted a " socio-cultural mix ," sat near the exact geographic center of the continental U. S., and Hume and Meyer's research told them that Lawrence was a prime missile target, because 150 Minuteman missile silos stood nearby.
The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).
' for indeed, it was near – only five miles from the cultural heart of Germany – ' that nation of universities ' [...]" ( p. 100 ).</ ref > The Goethe Eiche ( Goethe's Oak ) stood inside the camp's perimeter, and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald.
At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution ( former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde ); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.
In 1702, the first public theater in Russia was built near the Nikolsky gate ; It stood until 1737, when it was destroyed in a fire.
The interior of the structure, which stood on a 15 meter ( 50 foot ) high white marble pedestal near the Mandraki harbor entrance, was then filled with stone blocks as construction progressed.
The elm stood near the Senate wing of the Capitol building until 1948.
* The Logan Elm stood near Circleville, Ohio.
This shapely, open-grown Field Elm ( Ulmus minor ) stood at Ostra near Senigallia in the Italian Marches, where its " montagna di verde " (: mountain of greenery ) attracted many admirers, who bought its portrait in postcards.
It stood near the highway which later became the Roman road in the Valley of Elah, the scene of David's memorable victory over Goliath (), and not far from Gath.
" The word denotes some remarkable tree which stood near Zaanannim, and which served as a landmark.
The speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city, is quoted in 2 Kings 18: 27 – 37 and Isaiah 36: 12 – 20:

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