These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tetrazzini, Tetrodon, Tetrolic Acid.
LUISA, an Italian widely dispersed throughout the world, but abounding chiefly in the northern temperate and subtropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. They are called germanders. Several species were formerly reputed to possess medicinal virtues, but are now discarded. The genus is represented in North America by T. Canadense, the wild germander, about two feet high, found in fields and roadsides throughout the United States.
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or TETRAODON, in ichthyology, the type genus of Tetrodon tina, having the upper and lower jaws divided by a mesial suture, so as to separate the dentition into four distinct portions. More than 60 species are known, from tropical and sub-tropical seas. some the dermal spines are extremely In small, and may be absent altogether, and many of them are highly ornamented with spots or bands. A few live in large rivers; as, T. psittacus, from Brazil; T. fahaka, from the Nile and West African rivers, and T. fluviatilis, from brackish waters and rivers of the East Indies.
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C4H4O2; a monobasic acid prepared by heating chlor alpha crotonic acid with alcoholic potassic hydrate on the water-bath, decomposing the potassium salt formed with sulphuric acid, and extracting with ether. It crystallizes in rhombic tables, soluble in alcohol and ether, melts at 76.5°, and boils at 203°. Africa, in the province of El Garb; on
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a seaport town of Morocco, Africa, in the province of El Garb; on the Mediterranean, immediately within the Straits of Gibraltar, 22 miles from The environs are carefully plantvineyards and gardens; are exquisite, and , by some, superior In 1861 the determined to abandon its claims Morocco, declared Tetuan the property of Spain, rendered it impregnable, and colonized its territory. The exports are wool, silk, cotton, leather, etc. Pop. about 25,000. TETRABRANCHIATA ously folded or coiled, many - chambered, siphuncled; the inner layers and septa nacreous, the outer layers porcellanous. In palæontology, they attained their maximum in the Palæozoic period, decreasing from that time onward, and being represented at the present by the single genus Nautilus. The Nautilidæ proper and Orthoceratidæ are pre-eminently Palæozoic, while the Ammonitidæ are almost exclusively Mesozoic.
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a seaport town of Morocco, the Mediterranean, nean, immediately within the Straits of Gibraltar, 22 miles from Ceuta. The environs are carefully planted with vineyards and gardens; the grapes are exquisite, and the oranges reckoned, by some, superior to any in the world. In 1861 the Spanish government, having determined to abandon its claims against Morocco, declared Tetuan the property of Spain, rendered it impregnable, and colonized its territory. The exports are wool, silk, cotton, leather, etc. Pop. about 25,000. soprano, born at Florence, in 1874. When quite young she sang operas which she had heard from her elder sister, Eva, practice, and after three months' study under Cecherini at the Liceo Musicale of Florence made her debut as Inez in L'Africaine, and sang in Rome and other cities. Later she toured Russia and Spain, and was acclaimed at Buenos Aires. After visiting Mexico and California she sang at Covent Garden, Lon- LUISA TETRAZZINI don, in 1907, and in New York, in 1908. These tours established her reputation and she was acclaimed a successor to Patti. In recent years she has sung in the chief cities of Europe and America. German
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a genus of plants, order Lamiaceæ, consisting of herbs and shrubs
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in paleontology, a genus of Teuthidæ, or a sub-genus of Loligo, with five species, from the Upper Lias and Oölite of France and Württemberg. Pen like the Loligo, but dilated and spatulate behind.
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WILHELM, a German philologist; born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Sept. 27, 1820. His greatest work is the "History of Roman Literature" (1870). He wrote also: "Exercises in Latin Style" (1887); "Studies in Greek and Roman, and also in German Literary History" y" (1871); ; and edited with notes several Greek and Roman classics. He died in Tübingen, where he was professor in the university, March 8, 1878.
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in mythology, a deity mentioned by Lucan as being worshipped with sacrifices not unlike those of Moloch.
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in zoölogy, calamaries, or squids; a family of dibranchiate Cephalopods, section Octopoda. Body elongated; fins short, broad, and mostly terminal; shell horny, consisting of a shaft and two lateral expansions or wings. There are 18 genera, very widely distributed, which D'Orbigny divided into two sub-families: Myopsidæ (having the eyes covered with skin) and Oigopsidæ (having the eyes naked, fins terminal and united, forming a rhomb).
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in ichthyology, a family of Acanthopterygii Perciformes, with a single genus. Body oblong, strongly compressed, covered with small scales; late lateral line continuous; one dorsal, the portion being the more develspinou spinous oped; anal with seven spines; ventrals thoracic, with an outer and an inner spine, with three soft rays between.
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the sole genus of the family Teuthididæ, with about 30 species from the Indo-Pacific. They are small herbivorous fishes rather more than a foot long.
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or TEUTO- BURGER WALD, a hilly district of Germany, in Westphalia, where Arminius defeated the Roman general Varus, 9 A. D. See ARMINIUS.
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or TEUTONS, in antiquity, a powerful German tribe, which, in alliance with the Cimbri, advanced into Illyria, and defeated the consul Cn. Papirius Carbo, at Noreia 113 B. C. They afterward forced their way into Roman Gaul, and defeated Manlius and Scipio 105 B. c.; and they invaded Spain 104 B. C. On their retreat from Spain, they were met by the Romans, under Marius, at Aquæ Sextiæ, the modern Aix, and totally defeated, 102 b. c.
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in heraldry, a name sometimes given to a cross potent, from its having been the original badge assigned by the Emperor Henry VI., to TEUTONIC KNIGHTS (q. v.).
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a term now applied: (1) to the High Germans, including the German inhabitants of Upper and Middle Germany and those of Switzerland and Austria. (2) The Low Germans, including the Frisians, the Plattdeutsch, the Dutch, the Flemings, and the English descended from the Saxons, Angles, etc., who settled in Britain. (3) The Scandinavians, including the Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Icelanders.
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GEORG DANIEL, Transylvanian historian; born in Schässburg, Transylvania. He was bishop of the Saxons of Transylvania, and wrote: "History of the Transylvania Saxons" (2d ed. 1874); "Compend of the History of Transylvania"; "Documents for the History of Transylvania" (1857); "The Reformation in the Transylvanian Saxon- History land " ( 6th of the ed. Evangelical 1886); " Documentary Church Transylvania " ( 2 vols. 1862-1863). died in Hermannstadt, Transylvania July 2, 1893.
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