Anagrams of: IOSAURS

• large South American evergreen tree having trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil

• a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)

• a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

• a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body

• (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.

• A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.

• a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi

• cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond

• The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.

• The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.

• The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.

• The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.