Occidental: alternatives and connections

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf…

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the risi…

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by w…

The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corre…

An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, co…

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophy…

A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are man…

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

A description of climates.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.

One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolu…

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…

Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…

The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.

The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…