THE first edition of this dictionary was published in 1920. Nine years later a second edition appears. Clearly the scientific workers for whom it was compiled have found the book useful. A Dictionary ...

A koala bear isn’t actually a bear, it’s a marsupial. Whales aren’t fish, they’re mammals. Tomatoes aren’t vegetables, they’re fruit. Almost nothing is actually a nut. Peanuts, brazil nuts, cashews, ...

Proponents of the use of synthetic biology say it could bring some species back from the brink of extinction and help fight ...

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...

THE present work contains definitions of about 10,000 terms, including several hundred lately coined expressions, many of which have not hitherto appeared in a dictionary. In a first edition all the ...