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acid America Anglo-Saxon animals bark birds body boiled bottom burn called carbon carbonic acid carnivora chiefly cloth colour common copper countries covered dried earth easily eggs engraving Europe fastened feathers feet fire fish flowers French fruit glass grain Greek grows hair head heat holes horse hydrogen India Indian insects iron isinglass kind larvæ Latin leaves legs light live machine MAMMAL melted metal mixed molluscs mould nest nitric acid oxygen pachydermata paper papier-mâché passes pieces pipes plants plate pressed pupa rocks ruminantia salt saltpetre sand seeds seen shape shell shown side silk skin soft sometimes South America starch steam steel stone strong sugar tail thick thin things threads tree tube turpentine usually weft West Indies wheel wire wood word yellow zinc