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May
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May, month

May: see month month, in chronology, the conventional period of a lunation, i.e., passage of the moon through all its phases. It is usually computed at approximately 29 or 30 days.
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may, in botany

may, name for several plants; in England, particularly the hawthorn hawthorn, any species of the genus Crataegus of the family Rosaceae ( rose family), shrubs and trees widely distributed in north temperate climates and especially common in E North America.
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. See also mayflower mayflower, in botany, name for several spring-blooming plants. In England the hawthorn is called mayflower, or may; in North America the name is used for the trailing arbutus , the hepatica , and an herb (Maianthemum canadense
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May
Sir Robert McCredie. born 1936, Australian biologist and ecologist


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