Word Finder - abundant

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Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.

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[W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination

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Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.

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Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6

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Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.

Pigs and goats were then abundant on the islands.

It is abundant beyond imagination.

Iron and coal are probably abundant, and silverlead, copper and antimony are believed to exist.

Wherever they came from, there is abundant evidence that their first occupation of the Australian continent must have been at a time so remote as to permit of no traditions.

The national troops were well armed with Remington rifles, provided with abundant ammunition, equipped with artillery and supported by the fleet.

Australia produces abundant quantities and nearly all varieties of fruits; but the kinds exported are chiefly oranges, pineapples, bananas and apples.

Fresh-water forms, however, are also known, very few as regards species or genera, but often extremely abundant as individuals.

Except in the vicinity of cities and townships, however, little use has been made of the abundant deposits of clay.

These were abundant in Tertiary Europe, as they are now in Japan, and represent perhaps a cooler element in the flora than that indicated above.

Ilex, usually a smaller tree, frequently of rather shrub-like appearance, with abundant glossy dark-green leaves, generally ovate in shape and more or less prickly at the margin, but sometimes with the edges entire; the under surface is hoary; the acorns are oblong on short stalks.

Helium is relatively abundant in many minerals, all of which are radioactive, and contain uranium or thorium as important constituents.

In other cases it does not differ histologically from the parenchyma of the rest of the cortex, though it is often distinguished by containing particularly abundant starch, in which case it is known as a starch sheath.

Recreational trips for family and friends are abundant.

These enenlies are as a rule so conspicuous that we do not look on their depredations as diseases, though the gradual deterioration of hay under the exhausting effects of root-parasites like Rhinanthus, and the onslaught of Cuscuta when unduly abundant, should teach us how unimportant to the definition the question of size may be.

Sequoia and the tulip-tree still remain; figs are abundant; laurels are represented by Sassafras and camphor; herbaceous plants (Ranunculaceae, Cruciferae, Umbelliferae) are present, though, as might be expected, only fragmentarily preserved.

In England it is most abundant on the apple-tree, but rarely found on the oak.

The sieve-tubes differ, however, from the tracheids in being immediately associated, apparently constantly, not with starchy parenchyma, but with parenchymatous cells, containing particularly abundant proteid contents, which seem to have a function intimately connected with the conducting function of the sieve-tubes, and which we may call proteid-cells.

Chalk, from which blanc de Troyes is manufactured, and clay are abundant; and there are peat workings and quarries of building-stone and limestone.

Schools of all kinds are abundant.

This zone has an abundant rainfall, dense forests and a fertile soil.

Its pickerel, though not abundant, are its chief boast.

The Passerine Falculia, with its recently extinguished allies Fregilupus and Necropsar of the Mascarenes; the Coraciine Brachypteracias, Atelornis and Geobiastes, are very abundant, while Heliodilus is an owl belonging to that subfamily which is otherwise represented only by the widely-spread barn owl, Strix flammea.

Turtles are abundant and supply the Calcutta market.

Bamboos and palms, with Pandanus and Dracaena, are also abundant.

Truffles are abundant.

Calcium silicates are exceptionally abundant in the mineral kingdom.

Marine fossils are very abundant in the marl.

The grain produce, consisting mainly of wheat, oats, rye and Indian corn, exceeds the consumption, and the vineyards yield an abundant supply of both white and red wines, those of Limoux and the Narbonnais being most highly esteemed.

Works of this kind became still more abundant in the 14th and in the first half of the 15th century, till the wider distribution of the medical classics in the original put them out of fashion.

In the case of the cheaper and more abundant minerals, such as coal and iron ore, and of large deposits of low-grade ores, the extent and character of the deposit can generally be determined by surface examinations at comparatively small expense.

In metal-mines producing abundant rock-filling the overhand method of stoping, illustrated in fig.

The udad is distinguished by the abundant hair on the throat and fore-quarters of the rams, and the length of the tail.

Here the houses are most closely built, and stone structures most abundant.

It was a royal colour in early Greek times, though afterwards, perhaps from its abundant use in the baths and as a scented salve, it was especially appropriated by the hetairae.

It was a favourite pastime among the Romans, who imported their bears from Britain, a proof that the animal was then comparatively abundant in that country; indeed, from reference made to it in early Scottish history, the bear does not appear to have been extirpated in Britain before the end of the i 1 th century.

Snow falls all the year round on the Chimen-tagh, even in July, and water is abundant everywhere.

The Hydrozoa comprise the hydroids, so abundant on all shores, most of which resemble vegetable organisms to the unassisted eye; the hydrocorallines, which, as their name implies, have a massive stony skeleton and resemble corals; the jelly-fishes so called; and the Siphonophora, of which the species best known by repute is the so-called "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia), dreaded by sailors on account of its terrible stinging powers.

None extend farther to the westward than the valley of the Indus,' which, considering the nature of the country in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, is perhaps intelligible enough; but it is not so easy to understand why none are found either in Cochin China or China proper; and they are also wanting in the Philippine Islands, which is the more remarkable and instructive when we find how abundant they are in the groups a little farther to the southward.

The headquarters of parrots are in the Australian Region and the Malay countries; they are abundant in South America; in Africa and India the number of forms is relatively small; in Europe and North Asia there are none now alive, in North America only one.

There must be an abundant supply of fresh air and of water, and a drainage system as complete as possible.

It is indigenous to the south of Spain and the north of Africa (where it is known as Halfa or Alfa), and is especially abundant in the sterile and rugged parts of Murcia and Valencia, and in Algeria, flourishing best in sandy, ferruginous soils, in dry, sunny situations on the sea coast.

Green chlorite is usually also abundant in flakes like those of the mica.

A number of lakes within its limits are the source of an abundant and excellent water supply.

Water is everywhere abundant, and there are iron and hot sulphur springs.

The great warming and abundant rainfall of the island regions of the western Pacific, and the low temperature of the surface water in the east, cause a displacement of the southern tropical maximum of pressure to the east; hence we have a permanent " South Pacific anticyclone " close to the coast of South America.

The rainfall is abundant; in the western island groups there is no well-marked rainy season, but over the whole region the greater part of the rainfall takes place during the southern summer, even as far north as Hawaii.

The main island of Hawaii and Maui at the east end are practically without reefs; which, however, are abundant farther west.

Fruits are abundant, though indigenous fruits are few; the majority have been introduced by missionaries and others.

Fish are exceedingly abundant, especially in the lagoons of atolls, and form an important article of food supply for the natives, who are generally expert fishermen.

As his official duties made no great demands on his time, he had abundant leisure to devote to his favourite studies, - the antiquities and topography of Scotland having thenceforth special attractions for his busy pen.