a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)
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Bal•ti•more
(bôl′tə môr′, -mōr′),USA pronunciation n.
Bal•ti•more (bôl′tə môr′, -mōr′),USA pronunciation n.
- Insectsa black nymphalid butterfly, Melitaea phaeton, characterized by orange-red, yellow, and white markings, common in those areas of the northeastern U.S. where turtlehead, the food plant of its larvae, is found.
- see Baltimore oriole
Bal•ti•more (bôl′tə môr′, -mōr′),USA pronunciation n.
- Biographical David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1975.
- Biographical Lord. See Calvert, Sir George.
- Place Namesa seaport in N Maryland, on an estuary near the Chesapeake Bay. 786,775.
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David. born 1938, US molecular biologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1975) for his discovery of reverse transcriptase Lord
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