See Also: Mortierella(medicine)

INSURGENT (law) and Mortierella (medicine)


INSURGENT (law)


INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. The colonists who opposed the the tyranny of constituted authorities. The colonists who opposed the tyranny of the English government were insurgents, not rebels. tyranny of the English government were insurgents, not rebels.

Mortierella (medicine)


Mortierella


A genus of saprophytic fungi (class Zygomycetes, family Mucoraceae) commonly found in Nature and occasionally causing zygomycosis in humans.