THE present work contains definitions of about 10,000 terms, including several hundred lately coined expressions, many of which have not hitherto appeared in a dictionary. In a first edition all the ...

A koala bear isn’t actually a bear, it’s a marsupial. Whales aren’t fish, they’re mammals. Tomatoes aren’t vegetables, they’re fruit. Almost nothing is actually a nut. Peanuts, brazil nuts, cashews, ...

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...

THE first edition of this dictionary was published in 1920. Nine years later a second edition appears. Clearly the scientific workers for whom it was compiled have found the book useful. A Dictionary ...