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plumbago

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plumbago (plŭm'bā`gō): see graphite graphite (grăf`īt), an allotropic form of carbon , known also as plumbago and black lead.
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Presently she started up, exclaiming that they would be late for breakfast; and they hurried back to the tumble-down house with its pointless porch and unpruned hedge of plumbago and pink geraniums where the Wellands were installed for the winter.
[7] At the cataracts of the great rivers Orinoco, Nile, and Congo, the syenitic rocks are coated by a black substance, appearing as if they had been polished with plumbago.
 
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