A mythical tree or vine which figures in some primitive beliefs as affording the means of ascent from underground regions to the surface, or from the surface to the sky. Forms of this myth are foun...

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A Hindu ceremony to mark an infant's first intake of food other than milk.

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, remarkable for its strange thinness and transparency.