Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from pods of the flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). (Wikipedia, 2024. vanilla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla)
A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. As vegetation decays, tannins leach into the water, making a transparent, acidic water that is darkly stained, resembling black tea. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_river)
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Considered some of the cleanest natural waters in the world, blackwater rivers are very low in dissolved minerals and often have no measurable water hardness
A period of decline in economic activity or negative growth as measured by the growth rate in real gross domestic product (GDP). It is a synonym for economic downturn, a temporary or short-term downturn in economic growth. (Adapted from FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2025. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 – Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6008en)
A long-term experiment is an experimental procedure that runs through a long period of time, in order to test a hypothesis or observe a phenomenon that takes place at an extremely slow rate. What duration is considered "long" depends on the academic discipline. For example, several agricultural field experiments have run for more than 100 years, but much shorter experiments may qualify as "long-term" in other disciplines. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment)
“plastic debris” : objects consisting of synthetic or heavily modified natural polymers as an essential ingredient that, when present in natural environments without fulfilling an intended function, are solid and insoluble at 20 °C. (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53, 3, 1039–1047
Publication Date:January 4, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05297)
Hamiltonella is a genus of facultative endosymbiotic bacterium. Although Hamiltonella does not always increase resistance to parasitism, it may reduce the risk of parasitism in its aphid hosts by making them less attractive to searching parasitoids. (Adapted from Łukasik, P., Dawid, M.A., Ferrari, J. et al. The diversity and fitness effects of infection with facultative endosymbionts in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae . Oecologia 173, 985–996 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2660-52.)
Fibre fineness can be defined in micronaire (μg/inch) which measures units of mass (micrograms or μg) per unit of length (inches) to assess linear density. (M.R. Mahmoudi, in Advances in Yarn Spinning Technology, 2010)
Equitable tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests, for all, women and men, youth and vulnerable and traditionally marginalized people, within the national context. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2801e.pdf)
Economic, social and cultural rights are socio-economic human rights, such as the right to education, right to housing, right to adequate standard of living, right to health, victims' rights and the right to science and culture.
