piedra

[ pē-ā′drə ]

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A fungal disease of the hair marked by small black or white nodular masses.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

The pass of the Piedra Parada is 16,008 feet above the sea, and is always covered with snow.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
The niche near Leon, known as the Capilla de la Piedra, had before its entrance a flat stone resembling an altar.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume IV|Hubert Howe Bancroft
Una nueva y an ms ruidosa carcajada de los oficiales salud esta original revelacin del estrambtico enamorado de la dama de piedra.
Legends, Tales and Poems|Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
When within a hundred yards of Piedra Creek a man rode out of the timber directly toward them.
Whirligigs|O. Henry

La Fuente de Piedra is a small village, of about sixty houses, surrounded with olive-grounds, and abounding in crystal springs.
Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, v. 2/2|Charles Rochfort Scott