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Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (medicine)


Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
<person> French botanist, zoologist, and biological philosopher, 1744-1829.

See: lamarckian theory.


sirocco (iou)



sirocco noun & verb. Also scirocco. E17.

A. noun. Pl. -os.
A hot, oppressive, and often dusty or rainy wind which blows from the north coast of Africa over the Mediterranean and parts of southern Europe; gen. any hot southerly wind. Also sirocco wind. E17.
fig. A blighting influence; a fiery storm. M19.
A machine or oven for drying hops or tea leaves by means of a hot, moist current of air. Also more fully sirocco drying-machine, sirocco oven. L19.
b. verb intrans. & trans. Blow (about) like a sirocco. rare. E20.