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Fuegian :: Fuegian (a.) Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.

Turf :: Turf (v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace..

Barcon :: Barcon (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

Terrace :: Terrace (v. t.) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building..

Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..

Cade :: Cade (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.

Phillyrea :: Phillyrea (n.) A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive..

Slider :: Slider (n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).

Lateen :: Lateen (a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below..

Mediterranean :: Mediterranean (a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.

Terrasyllable :: Terrasyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Exterraneous :: Exterraneous (a.) Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad..

Botargo :: Botargo (n.) A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink..

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) A subterranean cavity or passag.

Kermes :: Kermes (n.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine..

Earthquake :: Earthquake (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock..

Matweed :: Matweed (n.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit..

Plutonic :: Plutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean..

Terraqueous :: Terraqueous (a.) Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe..

Gilthead :: Gilthead (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll..

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