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plesiomorphism (medicine) and Maracaibo (sh)


plesiomorphism (medicine)


plesiomorphism


Similarity in form.

Origin: plesio-+ G. Morphe, form


Maracaibo (sh)




City (pop., 2000 est.: 1,764,038), northwestern Venezuela.

Located on the channel connecting Lake Maracaibo with the Gulf of Venezuela, it is Venezuela's second largest city. Founded in 1571 as Nueva Zamora, it became a centre for inland trade after Gibraltar, at the head of the lake, was destroyed in 1669. It changed hands several times during Venezuela's struggle for independence from Spain. Within a decade of the discovery of oil in 1917, it became the oil metropolis of Venezuela and South America.