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Title: A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Scott, James
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: London : Cooke
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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GET rolla, the tube is cylindrical and longer than thecup, the upper lip is ere£t, obtufe, plain, and emar-ginated ; the lower lip is reflexed, and divided intothree fegments; the fruit is an ovate, bilocular andbivalvular capfule, containing egg-lhaped feeds, GERM, among gardeners, the fame with bud.See the article Bud. GERMAN, in genealogy, denotes entire orwhole; thus, a brother-german is one both by thefathers and mothers fide ; and coufms-german arethe children of brothers or fifters. GERMANDER, in botany, the Englifh nameof the teucrium of Linnaeus. See the article Teu- CRIUM. ^«/^r Germander, a plant called by botaniftsfcordium. See Scordium. GERMEN, or Germ, the fame with bud. Seethe article BuD. GERMINATION, the firft fprouting of thefeeds of plants. See Vegetation. GERUND, in grammar, a verbal noun of theneuter gender, partaking of the nature of a partici-ple, declinable only in the finguar number, throughall the cafes except the vocative. GESNERIA, in botany, a genus of p

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