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capsuleIn botany, a dry, usually many-seeded fruit formed from an ovary composed of two or more fused carpels, which splits open to release the seeds. The same term is used for the spore-containing structure of mosses and liverworts; this is borne at the top of a long stalk or seta. Capsules burst open (dehisce) in various ways, including lengthwise, by a transverse lid - for example, scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis - or by a number of pores, either towards the top of the capsule, as in the poppy Papaver, or near the base, as in certain species of bellflower Campanula. |
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I discovered one particular advantage of being a Seventh Day Baptist as I undertook this article to capsulate the life and contributions of Jennings Randolph, a United States representative and senator from West Virginia for over fifty years and a prominent Seventh Day Baptist. Physician Practice Options has a regular section, "Capital Ideas," devoted to alternative sources of capital, current popular sources of capital, rate of capital activity, market performance of health care organizations, and strategic considerations, risks, and opportunities for acquiring capsulate. The usual suspects bishops, writers, founders of congregations are all here, their lives recounted in graceful essays; but in addition, there are fascinating articles on what one would think would be subjects too difficult to capsulate intelligently: separate pieces on various Catholic "ethnics" (the Irish, Poles, Italians, Germans, et al. |
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