Bishop-s-ring
a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
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noun a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
- Michael-bishop
michael bishop Bishop (bĭsh’əp) American molecular biologist who, working with Harold Varmus, discovered oncogenes. For this work, Bishop and Varmus shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.