CHARLES AMES WASHBURN
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An American editor, historian, and novelist; born at Livermore, Me., March 16, 1822; died in New York, Jan. 26, 1889. He was editor and proprietor of the Alta California, and the San Francisco Daily Times (1858-61); minister to Paraguay (1861-65), residing in that country also from 1866 to 1868. He wrote "History of Paraguay" (2 vols., 1871); the novels "Philip Thaxter" (1861), "Gomery of Montgomery" (1865); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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hydromorphic
- [Greek] Structurally adapted to an aquatic environment, as organs of water plants.