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Anvers

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An·vers  -vâr)
See Antwerp.
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Noun1.AnversAnvers - a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460
Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium - a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization


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N-(Phosphonomethyl)glycine (glyphosate) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Saint Quentin Fallavier, France), and the pesticide Roundup (containing 360 g/L acid glyphosate; Monsanto, Anvers, Belgium) was from a commercial source.
De materia medica, first published in 1555 in Anvers, gave him a fame comparable to that of the Sienese Pietro-Andrea Martioli (1501-77), who translated Dioscorides' treatise into Italian.
In Caminha's customs books for 1527, for instance, Francysquo Nunez, son-in-law of Maria Anes, shows up owing taxes on imported cloth from Anvers.
 
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