The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
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Let us remember that free-hand drawing is only an approximate description of forms, and is not, like instrumental drawing, a mathematical representation of them.
The old description of her departed predecessor, " a Yankee cheese-box on a raft," will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.
As in Goethe's description of the lighthearted kind of resignation in Poetry and Truth, the end result of light-heartedness is the "blasphemous" implied conclusion that "all is vanity."
Meaning of description for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "description" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.