Gambusia Gambusia is a genus of freshwater fish in family Poeciliidae. Gambusia species are often called topminnows or simply gambusias; they are also known as mosquitofish, which, however, refers more specifically to one species, Gambusia affinis. Nine species are listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List; one, the widemouth gambusia, G.
	Game A game is a structured or semi-structured, contrived wiktionary:activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment, though sports or training simulation may be done for other purpose. A goal that the player try to reach and a set of wiktionary:rule concerning what the players can or cannot do create the wiktionary:challenge, structure and interactivity in a game, and are thus central to its definition.
	Game show A game show involves members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. In some shows contestants compete against other players or another team whilst other shows involve contestants striving alone for a good outcome or high score.
	Game theory Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics and economics that studies situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns. First developed as a tool for understanding economics behavior and then by the RAND to define nuclear strategies, game theory is now used in many diverse academic fields, ranging from biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy.
	Gamecock A gamecock is a strong, colorful, and territorial type of chicken, or fowl, bred for cockfight. Today, cockfighting, like most blood sports, is outlawed in most states of the United States, except Louisiana and New Mexico, and in many countries around the world.
	Gamelan A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesian origin typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments.
	Gamma ray Gamma rays are an energetic form of electromagnetic radiation produced by radioactive decay or other nuclear or subatomic processes such as electron-positron annihilation.
	Gams Gams is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
	Gamut In computer graphics, the gamut, or color gamut, is a certain complete subset of colors. The most common usage refers to the subset of colors which can be accurately represented in a given circumstance, such as within a given color space or by a certain output device.
	Ganesha In Hinduism, Ganesha and insignificant being-the mouse.
	Gang A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. Historically the term referred to both criminal groups and ordinary groups of friends, such as Our Gang. Some anthropology believe that the gang structure is one of the most ancient forms of human organizations .
	Ganges River The Ganges River is a river of northern India and Bangladesh. The river has a long history of reverence in India and is worshipped by Hindus as a goddess. It often called the 'holy Ganga'. The total length of the river is about 2,510 km . Along with another river Yamuna, it forms a large and fertile Sedimentary basin, known as the Gangetic plains, stretching across north India and Bangladesh, and supports one of the highest densities of human population in the world.
	Ganglion In anatomy, a ganglion is a biological tissue mass that contains the dendrites and cell bodies of neurons, in most case ones belonging to the PNS. Within the central nervous system such a mass is often called a nucleus .
	Gangrene Gangrene is necrosis and subsequent decay of biological tissues caused by infection or thrombosis or lack of blood flow. It is usually the result of critically insufficient blood supply sometimes caused by injury and subsequent contamination with bacteria. This condition is most common in the extremities.
	Gangster A gangster is a general term, though frequently misused, for a career criminal who is, or at some point almost invariably becomes, a member of a violent crime Organized crime, such as a gang. Gangsters as a collective therefore are typically organised criminals who are actively engaged in crime as a group activity or enterprise for pleasure and profit.
	Ganja Ganja is Azerbaijan's second largest city. The city was most likely founded in the 5th century AD. To explain the etymology of "Ganja", people refer either to the Persian word ganj, or to the gen, which is of either Kurdish or Turkic origin. Historically an important city of Iran, Ganja is also the birthplace of the famous classical Persian poet Nizami.
	Gannet Gannets are seabirds in the family Sulidae, closely related to the booby. The gannets are large black and white birds with long pointed wings and long bills. Northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, with a wingspan of up to 2 meters.
	Gansu Gansu is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Huangtu Plateaus, and borders Mongolia to the north. The Huang He river passes the southern part of the province.
	Ganymede In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or closer to the Greek Ganymedes was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. He was a Troy prince, son of eponym king Tros of Dardania himself, and of Callirrhoe. Ganymede was the most beautiful of mortals, and was carried off by the gods to Olympus as Zeus' eromenos and to serve as cupbearer to the gods.
	Gao Gao is a city in Mali on the River Niger with a population of about 38,000 people. The city was founded around the seventh century as Kawkaw, its first recorded monarch being Kanda, who founded the Za dynasty of what became the Songhai Empire. He ensured the citys growth by allowing trans-Saharan traders to visit and Berbers to settle.
	Gap Gap is a synonym for any hole or opening; a chasm. Many uses of the word are either literally or figuratively based on this meaning. Gap or GAP may mean: * Gap, a way through high land, often carved by a river ** Seismic gap * Gap, a United States-based fashion chain, named for the generation gap
	Gar In American English the name gar is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters of eastern North America, Central America, and the Caribbean islands.
	Garage sale A garage sale, also called a yard sale or tag sale, is an informal, irregularly scheduled marketplace of new or used household goods, typically sold by one or at most a few families. In some communities there are designated days every year in which "block sales" are allowed, so that people don't have to get the required permits or collect sales tax.
	Garbage disposal A garbage disposal or garburator is an electrically-powered device installed under a kitchen sink between the drain and the U-bend. It shreds food waste into very small pieces so that they can be passed through the plumbing without clogging. Also called a food waste disposal, they are sold in North America under brand names like "Waste King" and "In-Sink-Erator", the largest manufacturer of garbage disposals.
	Garcinia Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The genus, with between 50-300 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, is dioecious and several of its elements are apomictic.
	Garden A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form is known as a residential garden. Western gardens are almost universally based around plants.
	Garden Angelica Garden Angelica is a biennial plant from the umbelliferous family Apiaceae. Alternative English names are Holy Ghost, Wild Parsnip, Wild Celery, and Norwegian angelica During its first year it only grows leaves, but during its second year its fluted stem can reach a height of two metres.
	Garden centipede Snake centipedes or garden centipedes are the pale red or yellowish Geophilus and Haplophilus, which have very narrow and elongated bodies up to 7 cm long, about 40 to 80 pairs of short legs. They are found in soil and leaf litter, often exposed when turning-over garden soil.
	Garden cress Garden cress is a fast-growing, edible plant botanically related to watercress and Mustard plant and sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. In some regions garden cress is known as garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepperwort. Garden cress is a perennial plant, and an important green vegetable consumed by human beings, most typically as a garnish or as a leaf vegetable.
	Garden hose A garden hose or hosepipe is a kind of hose which is used for watering plants in a garden or a lawn. There are a number of common attachments available for the end of the hose, such as sprayers and Irrigation_sprinkler. Hoses are usually attached to a hose spigot.
	Garden of Eden The Garden of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man - Adam - and woman - Eve - lived after they were created by God. The past physical existence of this garden forms part of the creation belief of the Abrahamic religions. The Jahwist version of the creation story in Genesis supplies the geographical location of both Eden and the garden in relation to four major rivers , as well as in relation to a number of named regions - see Genesis 2:10-14.
	Garden Strawberry Garden Strawberry is the most common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide. Like all strawberries, it is in the family Rosaceae; its fruit is more technically known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
	Gardening Gardening is the art of growing plants with the goal of crafting a purposeful landscape. Residential garden most often takes place in or about a residence, in a space referred to as the garden. Although a garden typically is located on the land near a residence, it may also be located in a roof garden, in an Atrium , on a balcony, in a windowbox, or on a patio garden or vivarium.
	Garfield Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis , featuring the cat Garfield, the pet dog Odie, and their socially inept owner Jon Arbuckle. As of 2006, it is syndicated in roughly 2,570 newspapers and journals and it currently holds the Guinness World Record for being the worlds most widely Print syndication comic strip.
	Garfish Garfish are a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. The fish lives close to the surface and has a migratory pattern similar to that of the mackerel. They feed on small fishes and leap out of the water when hooked.
	Garganey The Garganey is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly bird migration, with the entire population moving to Africa in winter, where large flocks can occur. Like other small ducks such as teal, this species rises easily from the water with a fast twisting wader-like flight.
	Gargoyle In architecture, gargoyles are the carved terminations to spouts which convey water away from the sides of buildings. Gargoyles are mostly grotesque figures. Statues representing gargoyle-like creatures are popular sales items, particularly in goth and New Age retail stores.
	Garlands Garlands is the 1982 debut album of Cocteau Twins. It is the only album with original bassist Will Heggie and his chugging basslines give the album a distinctive sound. Robin Guthrie, by his own admission, had no idea how a studio worked at the time, but was confident enough in his burgeoning ability to get involved in the production, along with label owner Ivo Watts-Russell.
	Garlic Garlic is a perennial plant in the family Alliaceae and genus Allium, closely related to the onion, shallot, and Leek . It does not grow in the wild, and is thought to have arisen in cultivation, probably descended from the species Allium longicuspis, which grows wild in south-western Asia.
	Garlic chives Garlic chives is also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek, Ku chai, Oriental garlic chives or, in Japanese language, Nira. The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves.
	Garlic Mustard Garlic mustard is a flowering plant in the Mustard family, Brassicaceae. It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, and northwestern Africa, from Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern Scandinavia, and east to northern India and western China.
	Garlic press A garlic press is a kitchen utensil designed to crush garlic cloves efficiently by forcing them through a grid of small holes, usually with some type of piston. Many garlic presses also have a device with a matching grid of blunt pins to clean out the holes. Garlic presses present a convenient alternative to mincing garlic with a knife, especially because a clove of garlic can be passed through a sturdy press without even removing its peel.
	Garnet The garnet group of minerals show crystals with a habit of rhombic dodecahedrons and Deltoidal icositetrahedrons. They are Silicate minerals with the same general formula, X3Y23 in which the X site is usually occupied by divalent cations and the Y site by trivalent cations .
	Garnier Garnier is a company producing hair care products, including the Fructis line, that are sold around the world. It is a brand of L'Oral. One of their key ingredients is a fruit concentrate used in all their products. It is a combination of fruit acids, Niacin and Vitamin B6, fructose and glucose.
	Garnierite Garnierite is the name for a green nickel ore which is found in pockets and fissures of weathered ultramafic rocks. The name was given by Jules Garnier who firstly discovered it 1864 in New Caledonia. It forms by lateritic weathering of ultramafic rocks and occurs in many nickel laterite deposits in the world.
	Garonne The Garonne is a river in southwest France and northern Spain, with a length of 575 km .
	Garrison Garrison is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. The station is usually a city, town, fort, castle or similar. For example, the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry is garrisoned at West Point, New York.
	Garrison cap A garrison cap, forage cap or flight cap is a foldable cap with straight sides and a creased or hollow crown sloping to the back where it is parted. In the US armed forces it is known as a garrison cap or campaign cap, flight cap, garrison hat, fore-and-aft cap, pisscutter, overseas cap.
	Garrote A garrote is a handheld weapon, most often referring to a ligature of chain, rope, scarf, or wire used to strangle someone to death. The term especially refers to an execution device, but is sometimes used in assassination because it can be completely silent.
	Garrulus The genus Garrulus contains the Old World jays, passerine birds of the family Corvidae, and numbers only three species. *Garrulus glandarius, the Eurasian Jay *Garrulus lanceolatus, the Lanceolated Jay *G. lidthi Lidth's Jay Category:Garrulus
	Garry Oak The Garry Oak, also known as Oregon White Oak or Oregon Oak, has a range from southern California to extreme southwestern British Columbia, in particular on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. It grows at 60-210 m altitude in the north of the range in British Columbia, and at 300-1800 m in the south of the range in California.
	Garter belt Garter belt is a woman's undergarment consisting of an elastic piece of cloth worn around the waist to which Garter are attached to hold up stockings. Category:Underwear de:Strapse fr:Porte-jarretelles it:Reggicalze
	Garter snake A garter snake, or garden snake, is any species of North America snake within the genus Thamnophis. Garter snakes are extremely common across North America, from Canada to Central America, an everyday find in gardens. They are the single most widely distributed species of reptile in North America, and in fact, the common garter snake, T.
	Garuda The Garuda is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hinduism and Buddhism mythology.
	Gas burner A gas burner is a device to generate a flame to heat up products using a gas fuel such as acetylene, natural gas or propane. Some burners have an air inlet to mix the fuel gas with air to make a Combustion. Acetylene is commonly used in combination with ogygen.
	Gas chamber A gas chamber is a means of Execution where a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber. When the condemned breathes this gas, death follows. Hydrogen cyanide, or more rarely carbon monoxide, are the typical agents. Gas chambers have been used for animal euthanasia in the past, but most jurisdictions no longer permit this.
	Gas giant A gas giant is a large planet that is not primarily composed of Rock or other solid matter. Gas giants may have a rocky or metallic core—in fact, such a core is thought to be required for a gas giant to form—but the majority of its mass is in the form of the gases hydrogen and helium, with traces of water, methane, ammonia, and other hydrogen compounds.
	Gas meter A gas meter is used to Measurement the flow of fuel gases such as natural gas and propane. Gas meters are usually used at every residence and commercial building that consumes fuel gas supplied by a gas utility. Gas is much more difficult to measure then other mediums because it is be affected by both temperature and pressure.
	Gas pump A gas pump is a machine at a Filling station that is used to put gasoline in vehicles. Gas pumps are also known as "fuel dispensers" or "petrol bowsers". A modern gas pump consists of two main parts: an electronic "head" containing an embedded computer to control the action of the pump, drive the pump's displays, and communicate to an indoor sales system; and secondly, a mechanical section containing an electric pump and valves to physically pump the fuel.
	Gas turbine A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream Gas compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. Energy is released when Earth's atmosphere is mixed with fuel and ignition system in the combustor.
	Gas-discharge lamp Gas discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric current through a special gas. Depending on the gas, this either generates light directly, or the current generates ultraviolet light, which is converted to visible light by a fluorescent coating on the inside of the lamp's glass surface.
	Gascony Gascony is an area of southwest France that constituted a province of France prior to the French Revolution. It is currently divided between the Aquitaine rgion in France and the Midi-Pyrnes rgion. Gascony was historically inhabited by Basque people related people.
	Gasherbrum Gasherbrum is a remote group of mountain located at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya. The massif contains three of the world's eight-thousander. Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to the highly visible face of Gasherbrum IV; but in fact it comes from "rgasha" + "brum" in Balti, hence it actually means "beautiful mountain."
	Gasification Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, petroleum coke or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen. In a gasifier, the carbonaceous material undergoes three processes: # *Entrained flow *Manufactured Gas Plant
	Gasket A gasket is a Seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under Physical compression. Gaskets are commonly produced by cutting from sheet materials, such as gasket paper, rubber, silicone, metal, felt, fiberglass, or a plastic polymer.
	Gasoline Gasoline, also called petrol, is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons and enhanced with benzenes to increase octane ratings, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. Most Commonwealth of Nations, with the exception of Canada, use the term petrol .
	Gasometer A gasometer, or gas-holder, is a large container where natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures. The volume of the container follows the quantity of stored gas, with pressure coming from the weight of a movable cap. Typical volumes for large gasometers are about 1 E4 m³, with 60 m diameter structures.
	Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise was a French-American sculpture, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris he was most noted for his female nudes such as Standing Woman. Category:1882 births Category:1935 deaths Category:American sculptors
	Gastrectomy A gastrectomy is a partial or full surgical removal of the stomach. The first successful gastrectomy was performed by Theodor Billroth in 1881 for cancer of the stomach. Gastrectomies are performed to treat cancer, severe cases of peptic ulcer disease, and perforations of the stomach wall.
	Gastric mill Gastric mill is a part of the digestive tract of crustaceans. It is a muscular tube with sharp spines on the inside used to crack food items like hard shelled diatoms.