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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 654 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ENTADA , in See also:

BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a woody climber belonging to the See also:

FAMILY

family See also:

LEGUMINOSAE

Leguminosae and See also:

COMMON

common throughout the tropics. The best-known See also:

SPECIES

species is Entada scandens, the See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword-See also:

BEAN (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Bohne)

bean, so called from its large woody pod, 2 to 4 ft. in length and 3 to 4 in. broad, which contains large See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat hard polished See also:

CHESTNUT (nux Castanea)

chestnut-coloured seeds or " beans." The seeds are often made into See also:

SNUFF (from " to snuff, " i.e. to inhale, to draw in through the nose; cf. Dutch snuf, scent, Ger. Schnupfen, a cold, catarrh, and Eng. " snuffle, " " sniff, " &c.)

snuff-boxes or match-boxes, and a preparation from the See also:

KERNEL (O.E. cyrnel, a diminutive of " corn," seed, grain)

kernel is used as a See also:

drug by the natives in See also:

India. The seeds will See also:

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float for a See also:

long See also:

time in See also:

WATER

water, and are often thrown up on the See also:

north-western coasts of See also:

EUROPE

Europe, having been carried by the Gulf-stream from the See also:

West Indies; they retain their vitality, and under favourable conditions will germinate. See also:

LINNAEUS

Linnaeus records the germination of a See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

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