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- noun botany Any of the
plant genus Mirabilis; afour-o'clock .
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Examples
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We then went to what they call the Pifcina mirabilis, which is a let of arches, where there pro? bably was water, but to what end, my anti - quarian did not make clear to me.
Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany, in the years 1759, 1760, and 1761 1785
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Lucerna huius insulæ lucens lucerna mirabilis which is evidently corrupt, and (as Colgan seems to regard it as the opening stanza) must show that the whole text had become disturbed by the time when Colgan wrote.
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Thirty years later, in the annus mirabilis of sci-fi and horror that was 1982, John Carpenter came at the topic from an entirely new angle, drenching the screen in gore and goop and state-of-the-art effects and how!
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"Back in 1987-88 Luton enjoyed a season mirabilis, reaching both an FA Cup semi-final and, of course, the League Cup final not to forget a Simod Cup final and an appearance in the unforgettable Mercantile Credit Centenary Classic," writes Andy Collon.
Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge 2011
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Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.
Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009
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It truly has been an annus mirabilis for Van Persie, who arrived in north London as a young shaver seven summers since for a cut-price £2.75m.
Arsène Wenger full of praise for Robin van Persie's annus mirabilis 2011
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Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.
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By 1962 what Ms. Marquis calls Pop's "annus mirabilis" the Museum of Modern Art was sufficiently concerned about the movement's rise to devote a symposium to it.
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SOME OF THE PLANET'S LONGEST-LIVED ORGANISMSNAMIBIA: Welwitschia mirabilis The 2,000-year-old welwitschia plant found in the Namib-Naukluft desert is an unlikely-looking conifer that produces only two leaves in its lifetime? the longest in the plant kingdom.
The oldest living organisms: ancient survivors with a fragile future 2010
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Lander called it an “annus mirabilis,” one of the most prolific periods of discovery in human genetics.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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