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n. - A genus of low tufted shrubs in the heath family.

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  • And after arranging there his naval strategy, he entered the Adriatic sea, and came to an island called Cassiope, where the Venetian fleet - and the son of the Doge -...
  • On northern aspects and in sheltered areas are extensive shrubby patches of Rhododendron lepidotum, Cassiope fastigiata and Juniperus communis.
  • Little ice age temperature estimated by growth and flowering differences between sub fossil and extant shoots of Cassiope tetragona, an arctic heather.
  • Differential growth responses of '' Cassiope tetragona '', an arctic dwarf shrub, to environmental perturbations among three contrasting high - and subarctic sites.
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