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favella

(fəˈvɛlə)
n
(Biology) a mass of spores covered by a thin gelatinous envelope, as seen in certain red algae
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 BUCKLEY: Devilfire in concert with support from Rift and Favella at The Tivoli, Brunswick Road from 7pm.
Davidson, T.M., McGillicuddy, J., Mueller, M., Brunner-Jackson, B., Favella, A., Anderson, A., ...
The tintinnid Favella serrata dominated the estuary midstream, together with the rotifer Synchaeta okai, and Synchaeta pectinata was the only species that dominated the community in the estuary upstream (Table VI).
Quando mormora, il mar di me ragiona e dice in sua favella: 'Patria non e fuori del Ciel piu bella' (13).
Selective predation of Favella ehrenbergii (Tintinnia) on and among dinoflagellates.
Essa guerra foi um conflito deflagrado em Canudos, regiao do sertao da Bahia (um estado federado brasileiro), onde existia um morro chamado Favella, talvez porque fosse coberto por uma especie de planta, cujo nome era justamente "favella" (Jathropa Phyllaconcha), uma euforbiacia bastante comum nas regioes Nordeste e Sudeste do Brasil.
E la Vivanti compi nobilmente un atto di vera abnegazione sacrificando all'ultimo non poco dell'effetto scenico finale del suo dramma, quando appunto, in omaggio, anzi, in olocausto al sentimento di maternita, invece di chiuderlo con il suicidio di colei che seguendo piu l'istinto materno che quello patrio, tenne seco il figlio del nemico invasore, lo chiude coll'episodio della riacquistata favella della bambina rimasta muta dal giorno del delitto e che in un impeto di felicita fa esclamare alla madre di essa: "Sia benedetta la maternita".
Alan Porter's Clock Tower at Victoria Square, Birmingham, is an attractive and quite gentle watercolour and pencil work, and Nadia Abdouni Yates's Favella is an ink and watercolour work and features tiny houses on top of each other in a crowded area, little stick people visible between them.
Cosmopolitan theory in education needs to be rethought against the background of the emerging spatial politics of late-capitalist globalization if it is to avoid the accusation of Western neoimperialist moral universalism that actually characterizes only some members of the rich Atlantic states at the expense of over ninety percent of the world's population--both those immobilized in favella, 'homelands' and other poverty territorial containers and those forced to migrate or to remain 'on the run'.