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Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913
Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
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Apple-leaf Crumplcr {Acrobasis indiginella). a. case, containing caterpillar; b, cases in winter; c, head and thoracic Joints of larva, enlarged; d, moth (the cross shows natural 55 walnut case-hearer, feeds upon walnut and hickory, fasten-ing the leaves together and skeletonizing them from baseto tip. .1. iofUijiiieUa (Zcllcr) is a common pest on apple-trees, and is kimwn as the apple-leaf crumpler.acrobat (akn^-bat), n. [< F. acrobatc = Sp.acr6bato= Pg. It. uernhata (ef. NL. Acrnhute.-<), < Gr. iiKit/jJaror, walking on tiptoe, also going to the top, < iiKpov, the higiiest point, top, summit,neut. of (iKpor, highest, topmost, + /Jaror, verbaladj. from jiaivuv,go, = E. come, q.v.] 1. A rope-dancer; also, onewho practiseshigh vaulting,tumbling, or oth-erfeats of person-al agility.— 2. Aspecies of the ge-nus Aerobate^i. Acrobates (ak-rob a - tez), n.[NL.;< Gr. as if*aKpOiiaT7ir, oquiv.to tiKpo.^aTuty. seeacrobat.] Agenusor subgenus ofmarsupial quad-rupeds of the fam-ily
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