In the case of "compound stamens" the original stamens are first developed each from its own cellular "mamelon," or growing point; and, after a time, other secondary growing points emerge from the primary one, and in this way the stamens are increased in number, without reference, necessarily, to the so-called law of alternation. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In fact when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin,". From Wordnik.com. [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin". From Wordnik.com. [Berto: Philosophy Monkey] Reference
In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Pelosi and Reid say no] Reference
In the midst of this plain rises a mamelon or insulated granite rock, resembling in form. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
They reached the summit of the mamelon from which Xenophon was descending, and began rolling down crags. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
A second mamelon is clearly visible on nearby Mt Macedon and are apparently the best examples of this geological structure in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Signs of tent foundations and of buildings appear in impossible places; and the heights bear two Burj or “watchtowers,” one visible afar, and dominating from its mamelon the whole land. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
"If this mamelon is not taken," exclaimed Victor, impetuously, "we should not take any part in a campaign.". From Wordnik.com. [World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France] Reference
They 20 reached the summit of the mamelon from which Xenophon was descending, and began rolling down crags. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the "hill of Shomeron," a solitary mountain, a great "mamelon.". From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The valley now widened out, and a village came into view, together with a ruined castle upon a mamelon, that rose like a volcanic cone from the plain. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
This was none other than the mamelon mentioned as above the outpost, which had been captured over their fire by the volunteer storming party in the night. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
Taddi Moenga (p. 303); the only defect in Lieutenant Hawkey's sketch is that of exaggerating the bluff, a mere mamelon, one of many lumps upon a continued level. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
In their daring impetuosity the dragoons went as far as our rear-guard, where they were stopped by new forces, and finally brought back with great loss to the foot of the mamelon. From Wordnik.com. [World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France] Reference
Signs of tent foundations and of buildings appear in impossible places; and the heights bear two Burj or "watchtowers," one visible afar, and dominating from its mamelon the whole land. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
After this achievement the barbarians came to a crest facing the mamelon, and Xenophon held a colloquy with them by means of an interpreter, to negotiate a truce, and demanded back the dead bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
The houses -- many of which have late Gothic doorways -- are clustered about the sides of an isolated hill or mamelon in the valley of the Lot, beyond which rise the high cliffs covered with dark woods. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
Marshal Jourdan insisted on a delay of a few days, to allow Soult time to arrive; but the anxiety of King Joseph, and Victor's impatience, gained the day, and on the 28th, at daybreak, they attacked the mamelon, already threatened on the 27th. From Wordnik.com. [World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France] Reference
In the penumbræ of spots, the glowing streams rushing up from the tremendous sub-solar furnace are bent sideways by the powerful indraught, so as to change their vertical for a nearly horizontal motion, and are thus taken, as it were, in flank by the eye, instead of being seen end-on in mamelon-form. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Meanwhile, as the rest of the army filed past, and the colloquy was proceeding, all the people of the place had time to gather gradually, and the enemy formed; and as soon as the Hellenes began to descend from the mamelon to join the others where the troops were halted, on rushed the foe, in full force, with hue and cry. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
This time, however, I made no sign of all this being familiar to me: though as we sat for a while on the mound of the Dykes looking up at Sinodun and its clear-cut trench, and its sister mamelon of Whittenham, I felt somewhat uncomfortable under Ellen's serious attentive look, which almost drew from me the cry, "How little anything is changed here!". From Wordnik.com. [News from Nowhere] Reference
Tuckey (p. 97) calls Fingal’s Shield Taddy d’ya M’wangoo, and Professor Smith, Taddi Moenga (p. 303); the only defect in Lieutenant Hawkey’s sketch is that of exaggerating the bluff, a mere mamelon, one of many lumps upon a continued level. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Cameron's Hill, a thickly-foliated mamelon. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations of the War in America] Reference
Derrière un mamelon la garde était massée. From Wordnik.com. [L'Expiation] Reference
61 Or, “mamelon.”. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
(2) Or, "mamelon.". From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
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