Dog Rose – Domingo
Dog Rose
a common plant in hedges and thickets; also called the wild brier.
The fruit is known as the hep or hip.
The ripe fruit is used to prepare confection or conserve of hips, which is used in the preparation of certain kinds of pills.
Dog-Star
a name for Sirius, the star that gives its name to the dog days.
Dog's-Tail Grass
a small genus of meadow grasses, of which the crested species is esteemed alike for pastures and lawns.
Dogtooth
in architecture, an ornament or molding used from late Norman to early decorated, in the form of a four-leaved flower, with the center projecting.
Doit
a small copper coin current in Scotland during the reigns of the Stuarts. It was a Dutch coin, in value equal to the eighth of an English penny, or half a farthing.
Dolbear
AMOS EMERSON, an American physicist and inventor; born in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 10, 1837; was a valuable contributor to science. Among his publications are: "The Art of Projecting" (1876); "The Speaking Telephone" (1877); "Sound and Its Phenomena," and "Matter, Ether, and Motion." He patented the magneto-electric telephone and the static telephone in 1879. He died in 1910.
Dolerite
a variety of trap-rock, DOLET lava. It includes much of the so-called trap, greenstone, and amygdaloid.
Dolichocephalic
long-headed; an epithet applied to those human skulls in which the transverse diameter or width from side to side bears a less proportion to the longitudinal diameter, or width from front to back than 8 to 10.
Such are the skulls of the west African negroes.
Dolichosoma
an amphibian of the Carboniferous period. It is divided by Cope into the genera of Phlegethontia and Molgophis. Fossils have been found in Ohio and Nova Scotia. The Ohio specimens were imbedded in cannel coal formations indicating lake-like conditions during the life of the species.
Dolomite Mountains
or DOLO- MITE ALPS, a group of European mountains belonging partly to Tyrol, partly to north Italy, and having the Piave and Rienz on the E., the Adige and Eisack on the W. They are named from the prevalence of the mineral dolomite. The highest summits are Palle di San Martino (10,968 feet); Sorapiss (10,798), and Monte Tofana (10,715).
Dolphin
BLACK, a species of Aphis, or plant-louse, which infests the bean, and often does considerable injury flower-buds. It is of a dull black or darkgreen color, the young spotted with silvery white.
Domingo
SANTO. See SANTO DOMINGO.