"Neotropical" is a word in ENGLISH
Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's
surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and
tropical North America.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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Read the complete definitionAny species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have …
Read the complete definitionAny one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed …
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