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Colorado beetle. A insect indigenous to Colorado, one of the United States of America, so destructive to vegetables that the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 68), was passed to prevent its introduction into Great Britain by means of orders (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc., likely to introduce it, and giving powers to destroy crops on which it may be found, and compensation to persons whose crops may be destroyed accordingly....
Colorado River abstention
Colorado River abstention see abstention ...
Colorado beetle
A yellowish beetle Doryphora decemlineata with ten longitudinal black dorsal stripes It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado and is very destructive to the potato plant called also potato beetle and potato bug See Potato beetle...
Colorado group
A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region...
break
break broke [brōk] bro·ken [brō-kən] break·ing [brā-ki] vt 1 a : violate transgress [ the law] b : to invalidate (a will) by a court proceeding 2 a : to open (another's real property) by force or without privilege (as consent) for entry often used in the phrase break and enter [one who s and enters a dwelling-house of another "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] b : to escape by force from [s prison or escapes or flees from justice "Colorado Revised Statutes"] 3 : to cause (a strike) to fail and discontinue by means (as force) other than bargaining vi : to escape with forceful effort often used with out [prisoners wounded while attempting to out] break in·to : to enter by force or without privilege [an officer may break into a building "Arizona Revised Statutes"] ...
Water Court
Water Court : a court in Colorado and Montana with jurisdiction over the determination and administration of rights to water ...
Centennial State
Colorado a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year 1876...
Coloradan
a resident of the state of Colorado...
Colorado
Reddish often used in proper names of rivers or creeks...
Coloradoite
Mercury telluride an iron black metallic mineral found in Colorado...
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