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  1. Visigoth
    a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
    An obscure Eastern branch of the tribe called Ostrogoths who helped to bring about the sacking of the Roman Empire
  2. ontogeny
    the process of an individual organism growing organically
    An individiual organism growing organically; a biological unfolding of events whereby a simple organism changes graduall from a simple to a more complex level.
  3. ataraxis
    the absence of mental stress or anxiety
  4. zephyr
    a slight wind
Created on Tue Aug 24 03:22:32 EDT 2010 (updated Tue Aug 24 13:37:38 EDT 2010)

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