Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a stripe or streak of color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A stripe of color.
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- noun zoology A
stripe ofcolour .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is said that this word is derived from the Latin word plaga, and that it signifies the condemnation to the scourge of those who sold freemen for slaves.
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La cagada, esta gripe no tiene preferencias, me dije enseguida … Ya han pasado quince días desde el último encuentro con la plaga y no hay síntomas.
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: Continuing to Face the H1N1 Virus 2009
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A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which
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Est ista populosa, distincta ciuitatibus, vt quisque à quacunque plaga de vna exeat ciuitate nouerit aliam in media diaeta propinquam.
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Est ista populosa, distincta ciuitatibus, vt quisque � quacunque plaga de vna exeat ciuitate nouerit aliam in media diaeta propinquam.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He remembers the saying of the wise man, “Mulier nequam plaga mortis;” and at last by ordering her off in the name of the Blessed Trinity and the Holy Virgin, “withal gently blowing towards her,” she all of a sudden giving three leaps, and howling thrice, flies away in a trice.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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_ Rufescente-cervina, capite aurato, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus, thorace vittis tribus latissimis (lateralibus abbreviatis) pectoreque nigricantibus, alis lutescentibus, plaga postica interiore fasciaque latissima exteriore nigricantibus.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_A. _ nigra, nitida; facie, pectore, pedibus anticis et intermediis, plaga infra alas, scutelloque pallide ferrugineis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_R. _ rufescenti-flava; antennis et vertice nigris; alis hyalinis, plaga nigro-fusca.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The distich's fabrication was assisted by _EP_ II vii 41-42 'sic ego continue Fortunae uulneror ictu,/_uixque habet in nobis iam noua plaga locum_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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