Réaumur
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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M. Réaumur mentions the circumstance of a quantity of wheat stored in a corn-loft being much infected with the caterpillars of the small corn-moth, which spins a web and unites several grains together.
From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh
While their columns are dancing up and down with laughter at this somewhat tepid and low-pressure pleasantry, there come in a New York Réaumur and a Centigrade from Chicago.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The thermometer of Réaumur has been known to rise 26 degrees above freezing, but I have never myself observed it above 18 or 20 during my stay.
From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Bernard, Richard Boyle
It is then the normal larva; the only form known to Réaumur.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
The combat was continued by Vallisneri, Schwammerdam, and Réaumur, who succeeded in banishing the notion of spontaneous generation from the scientific minds of their day.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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