Woody plant

All the facilities and equipment used to provide telecommunications services. Note: Plant is usually characterized as outside plant or inside plant. Outside plant, for example, ...

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Fire safety; Prevention & protection

One or more buildings under the same ownership or control on a single property.

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Language; Public speaking

A person pretending to be a normal audience member, who, in fact, is there to assist the speaker in some way. Also Shill.

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Geography; Physical geography

Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. These organisms have the following general characteristics: lack of locomotion, lack of a nervous system, and cellulose cell walls. ...

aglaonema

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 20 species of usually rhizomatous, evergreen perennials from tropical forest in Asia. The leaf blades are borbe on long, sheathing leaf stalks from a central ...

amorphophallus

Plants; General plants

Genus of 90-100 species of perennials, with corm-like rhizomes, from moist, shaded habitats in tropical Africa and Asia. An unusual, fast growing plant. When the bulb starts to ...

datura

Plants; General plants

Genus of 5 species of evergreen shrubs and trees found in scrub and along streamsides from S. US to South America. Angel's Trumpet is so named because it produces large, ...

adenium

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 5 species of perennial succulent from semi-arid regions of the Arabian Peninsula and E. to S.W. Africa. The true species forms a caudex at an early age, tends to ...

bark

Plants; General plants

The outer covering of the trunk, branches and the root of the trees. Bark protects the trees from heat, cold, and insects.

cork

Plants; General plants

The light, spongy, outer bark of a kind of oak tree that grows near the Mediterranean Sea.

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Fiscal cliff

Fiscal cliff is a term used to describe the U.S. economic situation in which a series of tax relief laws, if unchanged, will expire at midnight on ...