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THRUM [3 records]

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Record 1 2022-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Weaving (Textile Industries)
DEF

... the end of a warp that is not woven but remains on the loom when the woven fabric has been cut free.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tissage (Industries du textile)
DEF

Portions de fils de chaîne qui subsistent sur le métier à tisser, engagés dans les œillets des lices et les dents du peigne, après l'enlèvement de la pièce.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Botany
CONT

The buckwheat flower has no petals - the sexual parts, the ovary, three styles and eight stamens being enclosed in the petallike sepas. Four of the anthers bend out but turn their pollen inward. The other four turn their pollen outward (Knuth 1909, pp. 341 - 342). Some plants have flowers, referred to as the "thrum" type, with short styles and long filaments so the stamens extend above the styles. Other flowers, referred to as "pin" types, have long styles and short filaments so the stigma is avobe the anthers. Occasionally, the styles and stamens are at the same height. The long stamens and filaments are fully 3 mm; the shorter ones, about 2 mm. Although each plant bears flowers of only one form, the seeds from either form will produce plants having the dimorphic forms in about equal numbers. The thress styles lead to a single ovary with one ovule, so a flower can produce only one seed, which is about one-quarter inch long.

OBS

From the Latin prefix meaning "brevi" meaning short

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
  • Botanique

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

Rock or small island.

CONT

Bald Thrum, N.S.

CONT

Big Thrumcap, N.S.

CONT

Little Thrum Cap, N.S.

OBS

thrum: Uncommon, used in N.S.

OBS

thrumcap: Uncommon, used in N.S.

OBS

thrum cap: Uncommon; used in N.S.

OBS

Terminology validated by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN) within the scope of its glossary (BT-176) which is the first authoritative publication on generics in use in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Masse solide isolée, s'élevant du fond de la mer, d'un lac ou d'un cours d'eau.

CONT

Petit Rocher, T.-N.

OBS

Attesté au Québec et à T.N.

OBS

Terminologie uniformisée par le Comité permanent canadien des noms géographiques (CPCNG) dans le cadre du glossaire BT-176 faisant autorité sur la question des génériques en usage au Canada.

Spanish

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