Thapsus
Americannoun
noun
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Juba, king of Numidia, prepared to do the same after the battle of Thapsus.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
He was in the battle of Thapsus in Africa B.C.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
Tunis, where the Aghlabites had ruled since 800 a.d., was the cradle of Fáṭimid power, and here they built their capital, Mahdiyya, near the ancient Thapsus.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
The real word was Bouillon; and that happens to be the trivial name in French for the plant Verbascum Thapsus.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
The pitted surface seems to predominate in Verbascum Blattaria, while the grooved surface seems to be more common in the seeds of V. Thapsus.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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