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Greek word oxus which means acid and the word gennan which means generate.
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As for example, some texts read: "Their feet are sharp to shed blood;" for the word "oxus" among the Greeks means both sharp and swift.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books Saint Augustine 1887
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Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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Of the other three snbphyla, the most advanced (or, at least, the one that most resembles the vertebrates) is the one that contains a small fishlike creature called the amphi-oxus.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Its botanical title is got from the Greek word _oxus_, sharp, or acid, because of its penetrating sour taste.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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At two o'clock he met his last class, which was just finishing "Sohrab and Rustum," and he was forced to ask one of the boys to read and interpret the majestic closing lines on the "shorn and parceled oxus."
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Oxymoron derives from the Greek oxymoros meaning ` pointedly foolish ', which itself derives from oxy -, a combining form meaning ` sharp' (from the Greek oxus meaning ` sharp ') and moron (from the Greek moros meaning ` dull').
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Thus alfo oxus is the name of a confiderable river of Afia ac - cording to Phny.
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