Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree of the fig family, Castilla Tunu, closely related to C. elastica, the tree producing Central American rubber. From its latex is obtained a sticky, resinous, nonelastic rubber, also called
tuno or tuno gum.
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YRS try mo .. pero sa manda ka nalng bumili kasi para ma tuno mo rin doon ..
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Danaus autem cognita malitia, Mineniam inuocauit adiutricem; tuno primum dicitgr Minerua nauim fecifle» quae Argos appelhta eft, cum qua Danaus ex Aphrica Argos profugit.
Arati Solensis Phaenomena et Diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita Buhle, Johann Gottlieb, 1763-1821, ed 1793
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ThilofophUOptiu ticx, Opticamexponens, inter alia oftendi j ad Vifionenr Triteordinandam fuifie neceffariam peruerfionem fitus im - pfeffionum in Senforio » ad iilam proxime determinante, quod &: aiferui in Paradoxis in xs incifis, & tuno publicatis, inquibusquarto loco habetur; debuiffe Oculum alieno ii - tu Gbiedorum imagines excipere, vt obie&a, inueniret fuo.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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