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flowering almond

(Encyclopedia)flowering almond, name for several species of ornamental shrubs of the genus Prunus, of the family Rosaceae (rose family), chiefly those which also include the true almond, peach, plum, cherry, and ap...

Japanese flowering cherry

(Encyclopedia)Japanese flowering cherry, any of a variety of flowering cherry species native to East Asia. ...

Villanovan culture

(Encyclopedia)Villanovan culture, the culture of a people of N Italy in the early Iron Age (c.1100–700 b.c.). The term is derived from the town of Villanova, near Bologna, where the first excavations of a Villano...

Latin language

(Encyclopedia)CEE Latin language, member of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Latin was first encountered in ancient times as the language of Latium, the region of central Italy in w...

Latin Empire of Constantinople

(Encyclopedia)Latin Empire of Constantinople: see Constantinople, Latin Empire of. ...

Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

(Encyclopedia)Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: see Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of. ...

Vulgar Latin

(Encyclopedia)Vulgar Latin, vernacular form of the Latin language spoken in ancient Rome and the Roman Empire, as distinguished from classical or literary Latin. Vulgar Latin, rather than classical Latin, is the tr...

Latin America

(Encyclopedia)Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. The 20 republics are Arge...

Woodlands culture

(Encyclopedia)Woodlands culture: see Eastern Woodlands culture. ...

Folsom culture

(Encyclopedia)Folsom culture fŏlˈsəm, fŭlˈ– [key], a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated (1926) near Folsom, E of Raton, N.Mex. The ...