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Girasols/Jerusalem artichokes were first cultivated by the Native Americans long before the arrival of the Europeans; this extensive cultivation obscures the exact native range of the species.
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The term Bilbo probably comes from the Basque city of Bilbao, where a significant number of them were made and exported to the New World.
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Stegosaur's spikes were most likely used for defense against predators, while its plates may have been used primarily for display, and secondarily for thermoregulatory functions.
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A new sense of unicorn has just been added to the dictionary. In the world of big business, a unicorn is a start-up company valued at more than a billion $.
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Word of the Day: Andrewsarchus
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In popular culture,‭ ‬especially at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,‭ ‬Andrewsarchus has been presented as a huge predator,‭ ‬similar in form to other quadrupedal meat eating mammals,‭ ‬but powerfully built like a big cat or even a bear.‭ ‬However despite this reconstruction becoming very familiar in the public consciousness,‭ ‬palaeontologists are far more cautious as so far only the skull of this animal is known.
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Use of the word esemplastic has been limited to describing mental processes and writing, such as "the esemplastic power of a great mind to simplify the difficult", or "the esemplastic power of the poetic imagination".
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Word of the Day: lunula
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Lunula is located at the end of the nail (that is closest to the skin of the finger), but it still lies under the nail.
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From ‘shipping’ to ‘OTPs’, get to grips with the #language of #fandom...
If you’re new to the world of fandom, the jargon may flummox you; but we can help! Here’s a primer on some basic terminology of the fandom multiverse.
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Word of the Day: barathea
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Both men were in their early forties and wore navy-blue barathea waistcoats.
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Word of the Day: pheromone
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There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology of a species.
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Word of the Day: donnée
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Mind, body and soul compose the donnée of life.
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