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noun

Costa n.

(Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being.

(Bot.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

(Zool.)

(a)

The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.

(b)

One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... morning of the 28th we reached the home buildings of the great Sao Joao fazenda, the ranch of Senhor Joao da Costa Marques. Our host himself, and his son, Dom Joao the younger, who was state secretary of agriculture, and the latter's charming wife, and the president of Matto Grosso, and several other ladies and gentlemen, had ...

— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... British government, and under their protection transferred to Cephalonia. Yet again, others of their scanty clan meet us at different points of the war in Greece; especially at the first decisive action with Ibrahim, when, in the rescue of Costa Botzaris, every Suliote of his blood perished on the spot; and again, in the fatal battle of Athens (May 6, 1827), Mr. Gordon assures us that "almost all the Suliotes were exterminated." We understand him ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... other men, was to place the eggs in zinc-boxes of about one foot in diameter, having a lid over them—the top and sides of the boxes pierced with small holes, smooth on the inside; these boxes were partly filled with clean sand and gravel, and set in clear running water. M. Costa's method, at the college of France, is to arrange boxes in the form of steps, the top one being supplied with water by a fountain, and that passing from one to the other through all the series, and the eggs placed on willow-hurdles instead ...

— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden

... this paper (Plate I) conveys a clear idea of the position and the leading topographic features of the province. The boundaries separating it from Veragua on the east and Costa Rica on the west run nearly north and south. The Atlantic coast line has a northwest and southeast trend and is indented by the bay or lagoon of Chiriqui. The Bay of David extends into the land on the south and the Gulf of Dolce forms a part of the western boundary. A range of ...

— Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia • William Henry Holmes

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