Pecul

Pec´ul


n.1.See Picul.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Estudio de la composicion floristica de las cimas de los volcanes, Agua, Acatenango, Fuego, Atitlan, Zunil, Santo Tomas (Pecul), Santa Maria, Tajumulco y Tacana, en la republica de Guatemala.
James Brooke, whose picture of Lundu is the earliest to survive [1839], describes a Chinese settlement 2Vi miles up the Batang Kayan from Stunggang (on Tanjung Sejirin opposite present-day Munggu Raman): "many acres were cleared and under cultivation...and they were able to supply us with seven pecul, or 933 lbs., of sweet potatoes, [also American in origin] without sensibly diminishing their crop." (3)
En algunos estudios utilizando la escala de Creencias Sociales Contemporaneas en distintos contextos como el espanol, latinoamericano y norteamericano (Seoane y Garzon, 1996; Stone y Yelland, 1994; D'Adamo y Beaudoux, 1996) vemos que los tres planos mencionados adoptan una tendencia muy parecida a pesar de las diferencias y pecul iaridades de las tres sociedades.
In this Melnyczukian scheme of history, evil and suffering are not pecul iar to Ukrainians but part of the human condition.