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Written or spoken language that is eloquent, elegant, or ornate, particularly when expressed in terms calculated to persuade. In usage, may be intended as depreciative, referring to language characterized by artificial, insincere, or ostentatious expression; inflated or empty verbiage.

Gema incolora artificial de pasta o de cristal, a menudo con facetas que brillan imitando un diamante. También se refiere al vidrio tallado con refuerzo de aluminio o plateado utilizado para imitar diamantes. Diamantes de imitación eran originalmente guijarros de cuarzo que se encuentran en el río Rin, de ahí el nombre.

Family containing four genera and five living species and several extinct species. They are large, thick-skinned odd-toed hoofed quadruped mammals having one or two upright horns on the snout. Originally native to Africa, India, and eastern Asia.

A genus of hornbills.

Species of large bird in the hornbill family, found in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

Species of tree, reaching 24 m (80 feet) in height. It is found in estuarine ecosystems throughout the tropics, growing on aerial prop roots that arch above the water level.

Family of 16 genera and around 120 species of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.

Genus containing around 9 species of common saprobic fungi that reproduce by vegetative, asexual, and sexual methods by spores. Members are found on various plants and as specialized parasites on animals, including humans. They are found on a wide variety of organic substrates, including mature fruits and vegetables, feces, jellies, syrups, leather, bread, peanuts, and tobacco.

Culture or condition of citizenship or residency of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

Nationality, culture, or styles of the historical area of Rhodesia, Africa. For the nationality of the modern nation, use "Zimbabwean."

Nationality, style, or culture of the island of Rhodes, now in Greece, in the Aegean Sea off the southwest coast of Turkey.

Mineral composed of manganese carbonate (MnCO3), appearing transparent to opaque pink to deep red in color; used as an ornamental stone and source for manganese. Found in hydrothermal veins along with other manganese minerals in low temperature ore deposits as in the silver mines of Romania, Germany, and Britain; also found in South and North America.

A pink to light violet variety of garnet; is used as a gemstone.

Manganese silicate occurring as rose-pink or brownish crystals sometimes used as a gemstone.

Class including about 4,100 species of predominantly marine algae often found attached to other shore plants. Their morphological range includes filamentous, branched, feathered, and sheetlike thalli.

Large group containing between 5,000 and 10,000 species, depending upon the classification, of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds and coralline algae. They are characterized by having eukaryotic cells without flagella and centrioles, using floridean starch as food reserve, having phycobiliproteins as accessory red pigments, lacking external endoplasmic reticulum, and using sexual reproduction.