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argentina

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
South American nation, from Latin argentinus "of silver" (see argent ); a Latinized form of (Rio) de la Plata , from Spanish plata "silver."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Argentina ( silverweeds ) is a genus of plants in the rose family ( Rosaceae ) which is accepted by some authors, as containing 64 species, but classified in Potentilla sect. Leptostylae by others.

Usage examples of argentina.

The Werwolf finally made his peace with his furious superiors in Argentina and settled on a small estate he bought with the money realized from the sale of his effects, on the Spanish island of Formenteria.

Our only practical experience comes from the primitive bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that ludicrous Pakistani explosion and the single airburst that destroyed Porto Alegre and terminated the incident between Brazil and Argentina.

Dinosaurs were unrecorded from Antarctica until 1987, when an ankylosaur was reported by a scientific party from Argentina, and in the winter of 1991 a prosauropod discovery made it onto the front pages of our newspapers.

Argentina over the years to learn at least the names of the more important Argentinean officers.

The outstanding examples of counterinsurgent atrocity can be found in Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Cicero wrote De Oratore, and at about the same time as, in Argentina, Borges was writing Funes the Memorious, the Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria encountered a patient with a peculiar problem, an apparent inability to forget.

Jewish Section, department B4, was headed by Adolf Eichmann, executed by the Israelis in Jerusalem after being kidnaped from Argentina.

The area that used to be the Soviet Union has the largest number of acres of sunflowers under cultivation, followed by Argentina.

I had to be able to move swiftly from a scene set in Argentina to a scene set in a base on the Moon, scenes populated by entirely different sets of characters.

Demonstrators charged that the IMF had a plan to force Argentina to cut wages.

In Argentina, the new owners of the Buenos Aires system include, notably, the World Bank itself.

August 2001, I received the sad news that Argentina had died, or at least its economy.

It was signed by Pedro Pou, president of the Central Bank of Argentina for transmission to Horst Kohler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

That September, Argentina was already on the cliff-edge of a deep recession.

Luckily, Brazil, India and, most aggressively, Argentina can make the drugs dirt cheap and ship them to the dying.