Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

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Glossar Y: Glossary

Quintus, n. L. quintus, fifth; the name given in this book to a suppositional plant. GLOSSARY.

R.

Rain, n. A.-S. regn, rain: the water falling in drops through the atmosphere. Water rises as vapor from the moist earth and the sea; it is then condensed by coming in contact with the cold upper air, and falls to the earth as rain.

Reproduced, pp. L. re, again, producere, to produce, to bring forth; produced again, having formed new plants or animals from those already existing.

Retrogressed, pp. Went backward.

Retrogression, n. backward.

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