Agar-agar: alternatives and connections

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The…

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is…

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of…

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.

Of or pertaining to Ceylon.

A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…

of Fucus

Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

any member of the genus Fucus

An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green po…