Word: messerschmid
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...Wading ashore on Namu in the Bikini atoll, an island so hard hit by atomic fireballs that its entire top was blown off, the scientists found it covered with sedge, beach magnolia, and the small white-flowered tree messerschmidia, which was named for the 18th century German botanist, Daniel Messerschmid. So thick were the morning-glory vines on some of the islets that the scientists had to hack their way through with machetes. Birds are back in the atolls, replacing those that were killed or so blinded that they starved to death...
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