Word: nucifera
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...Institute of Botanical Research at Yonkers, N. Y., founded with a $3,000,000 endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made...
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