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  • 31PLIOCÈNE — Le terme «Pliocène» (du grec plios , plus, et kainos , récent) a été créé par le géologue anglais Charles Lyell, en 1833, pour désigner les terrains tertiaires les plus récents, ceux dont la faune présente le plus de ressemblance avec le monde… …

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  • 32congerie — (del lat. «congerĭes»; ant.) f. Cúmulo o montón. * * * congerie. f. Ret. congeries. || 2. desus. Acumulación, amontonamiento …

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  • 33ACERVUS lapidum — in viis Mercurio olim sacer erat: unde et Mercurius dictus. Isid. in Gloss. Mercurii lapidum congeries, in cacumine collium. Nempe viator quisque in acervum mittebat lapidem, ut sic crelceret, ac facilius viam monstraret, eaque lapidum congeries… …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 34CHAOS — rudis et inordinatae materiae confusa congeries. Poetae aiunt Chaos in principio fuisse, i. e. confusionem rerum, atque elementorum. Postea vero Deum ditemisse illam congeriem, siugulisque rebus ex confuso acervo separatis, in ordinemque… …

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  • 35assemblage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Persons or things assembled Nouns 1. (collection of people) assemblage, assembly, gathering, meeting, forgathering, convocation, congregation, council, caucus, conclave, congress, diet, convention;… …

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  • 36Assemblage — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Assemblage >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{opp,73,} assemblage Sgm: N 1 collection collection collocation colligation Sgm: N 1 compilation compilation levy gathering ingathering muster …

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  • 37con|ge|ries — «kon JIHR eez, ee eez», noun singular. or plural. a collection; heap; mass: »The modern urban society…is itself a congeries of groups often more or less hostile to one another (Ogburn and Nimkoff). SYNONYM(S): aggregation. ╂[< Latin congeriēs… …

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  • 38жесткий — жёсток, жёстка, жёстко, др. русск., ст. слав. жестъ жесткий, твердый , жестѣти твердеть . Возможно родство со ср. в. н. kes ср. р. твердая, гладкая почва, глетчер , бав. kes глетчер . Др. ступень чередования представлена в др. исл. kǫs, род.п …

    Этимологический словарь русского языка Макса Фасмера

  • 39Calculary — Cal cu*la*ry, n. A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 40Thallogen — Thal lo*gen, n. [Gr. ? young shoot or branch, frond + gen.] (Bot.) One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, alg[ae], and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of …

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