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  1. ... Fever. See Dengue. Dates. The fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) which grows in Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and the north of Africa. In some of these districts the date forms the principal subsistence of the inhabitants. Datura. ...
  2. ... on it. It is the produce of the date palm, or Phoenix dactylifera of botanists. Dates have been recently analyzed by Reinsch,f who ...
  3. ... 33, endogens, sac- charum officinale (sugar cane) ; 34, phoenix dactylifera (date palm) ; 35, colchicum au- tumnale (meadow saffron). 56 MICROSCOPES. ...
  4. ... by the Banians in the town of Zanzibar. Phoenix dactylifera, the Date palm. Two or three stocks, planted on the island ... 388. Pheasant, see Phasianus. Philippine Islands, visited, 118. Phoenix ... dactylifera, the Date palm, 248, 343, 348, 353, 358, 365, 371. Phormium ...
  5. ... the mannonic lactones from the seeds of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and a study of their action and that ...
  6. ... the skin. DATES. The drupaceous fruit of the Phoenix dactylifera, or Date Palm tree. [DATURA. A Linnean genus of plants of ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The natural history of Pliny (Volume 3) 
    Publication: London : Henry G. Bohn, MDCCCLV-MDCCCLVII
    ... supposed by some to have been really the Phoenix dactylifera, or date-palm. There can be little doubt that he is ...
  8. ... those which respect the ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 199 Date, or Phoenix dactylifera, and other Palms.* From the time of Herodotus,! who has left four or five curious lines upon this subject, down to our own age, many authors have ... the female Date will not bear abundant, well flavored, and fertile ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities 
    Publication: New York : American Book Company, [1843]
    ... poivii;), I a fabulous Egyptian bird. *11. The Phoenix dactylifera, Date-tree, or greater Palm. “Theophrastus describes six species or kinds of palms ; ...
  10. ... in fat, they form a very appropriate sauce. Dates. The fruit of the phoenix dactylifera, a species of palm. It is in its dried state that the date is met with in this country. This fruit ...
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