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atrophy
Decrease from previous normal size of the body or a part, cell, organ, or tissue. An organ or body part's cells may be reduced in number, size or both. Atrophy of some cells and organs is normal at certain points in the life cycle. Other causes include malnutrition, disease, disuse, injury, and hormone over- or underproduction.


crop
In agriculture, a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption (e.g., wheat, potatoes); feed crops, for livestock consumption (e.g., oats, alfalfa); fiber crops, for cordage and textiles (e.g., cotton, hemp); oil crops, for consumption or industrial uses (e.g., cottonseed, corn); ornamental crops, for landscape gardening (e.g., dogwood, azalea); and industrial and secondary crops, for various personal and industrial uses (e.g., rubber, tobacco).


croton
Colorful-leaved plant (Codiaeum variegatum) of the spurge family, native to Malaysia and the Pacific. Its numerous varieties of shrubs or small trees with brilliantly colored, glossy, leathery leaves are popular potted plants. Leaf colors occur solid or in combinations of green, yellow, white, orange, pink, red, crimson, and purple. Another plant of the same family but of a different genus is purging croton (Croton tiglium), a small tree native to S.E. Asia with seeds that yield croton oil.


Gropius
German-U.S. architect. The son of an architect, he studied in Munich and Berlin and joined the office of P. Behrens in 1907. In 1919 he became director of the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar. He designed a new school building and housing for the Bauhaus when it moved to Dessau (1925). With its dynamic International Style composition, asymmetrical plan, smooth white walls set with horizontal windows, and flat roof, it became a monument of the modernist movement. In 1934 Gropius fled Germany for Britain, and in 1937 he arrived in the U.S, taking a position at Harvard Univ. At the Bauhaus and as chair (1938-52) of Harvard's architecture department, he established a new prototype of design education, which ended the 200-year supremacy of the French \u00c9 cole des Beaux-Arts. Chief among his ideas was the belief that all design requires systematic study of the particular needs and problems involved, taking into account modern construction materials and techniques without reference to previous forms or styles.


Oromo
Major ethnic group of Ethiopia, numbering 20 million, or nearly half the population, and occupying much of its central and S central regions. They speak a Cushitic language of the Afroasiatic family. They are a diverse group, having assimilated and intermarried with other peoples since the 16th cent. Traditionally the Oromo were nomadic herders, but today most are settled agriculturalists. Politically they are largely subjugated to the dominant Amhara. ...

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