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Intrigues

Intrigue

1. Intricacy; complication.

2. A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

3. The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

4. A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

Synonym: plot, scheme, conspiracy, machination.

Origin: cf. F. Intrique. See intrigue.


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Links between species

Apologies for this basic question which intrigues me. A species can be defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing offspring. Is it possible to identify an individual within a species that is in transitional form to ...

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Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:39 pm
 
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The Fiber Disease

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