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Blainville

American  
[blan-veel] / blɛ̃ˈvil /

noun

  1. a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.


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His high school in Blainville, Quebec, did not have a basketball team.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Mize, the 1987 Masters champion, had seven birdies, an eagle and a bogey on the par-72 course in Blainville, Quebec, to win in his 36th tournament on the seniors tour.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2010

Blainville, who wisely added that there are “two fundamental and correlative conditions inseparable from the living being—an organism and a medium.”

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

Meckel and Carus among the Germans, de Blainville and E. Geoffroy among the French, contributed to 097the development of the theory.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The French Minister of the Interior has decided that marble busts of M. Gay-Lussac and of M. Blainville shall be executed at the expense of the government, and placed in the Institute.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

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