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facies
Part of speech: NounIn nat. hist., any common resemblance or aspect among the rocks, plants, animals, or fossils of any area or epoch.
Usage examples "facies":- C might be omitted in the language without loss, since one of its sounds might be supplied by s, and the other by k, but that it preserves to the eye the etymology of words, as face from facies, captive from captivus"- Johnson. - "The English Language", Robert Gordon Latham.
- " With stars and sea- winds in her raiment," flower- crowned, shod with victorious palm, clad, under the dark splendours of her heavy pall, in shimmering white silk shot with saffron and rose like flame, an awful figure rises out of the moonlit sea: En adsum, comes her voice, rerum natura parens, elementorum omnium domina, seculorum progenies initialis, summa numinum, regina manium, prima caelitum, deorum dearumque facies uniformis, quae caeli luminosa culmina, maris salubria flamina, inferorum deplorata silentia nutibus meis dispenso. - "Latin Literature", J. W. Mackail.
- The different facies and associations were developed at various times and places. - "Darwin and Modern Science", A.C. Seward and Others.