SCARECROW
\skˈe͡əkɹə͡ʊ], \skˈeəkɹəʊ], \s_k_ˈeə_k_ɹ_əʊ]\
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By Noah Webster.
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A figure, usually a crude likeness of a man, set up to frighten birds away from crops; that which frightens without real cause; a person dressed in rags and tatters.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.