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Spots as far as I remember. I don't remember them having an official name.
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Imagine the sparks that would fly should you knock those dominoes down.
And the only pollution would be a pleasant minty scent!
The point of this is really, what are those dots on dominoes called?
I think they are called pips on dice, so that may hold true for domini as well.
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Your suggestion, ww, would certainly "knock the spots off" the dominoes!! In UK, they are invariably called "spots", and I believe the phrase that I have enquoted, above, derives from that name. It means, for those who are wondering, to beat one's opponent soundly and unquestionably - a measure of infinite superiority in any field of endeavour. E.g, "I prefer Polo mints - they knock the spots off Life Saver Winto Greens!" 
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what are those dots on dominoes called? "pip(3) NOUN: 1. *Games a. A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes"http://www.bartleby.com/61/28/P0322800.html
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Yes, I'm with "spots" for the white dots on a domino http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=domino*1+0I assume that there is US/UK difference in usage. In passing, I noticed that "spot" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=spot*1+0 is one of those words that has very different meanings depending on part of the world. In the UK, we might say "a spot of rain". It says that to call work "spotty" in the US and Australia would mean the same as "patchy" in the UK and Australia. If someone told me that some schoolwork was spotty I would have assumed that someone had spilt ink over it. I realised that a spot is called a zit in the US but didn't realise that if someone said that they had a spot it would not be understood to mean a zit. (is this correct?) To me, that is often the problem with dictionaries. It is sometimes tricky to pick out the kind of words that are part of everyday speech as opposed to those words that have a meaning that is understood but are rarely used (but not necessary obsolete). It is useful to be able to check out words with a group such as this. For example, I only discovered the other day that redundancy was not a uniformly understood term.
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Dear WW: here is a link some of your kids might enjoy. It tells about how fireflies work: http://www.discoverchemistry.com/dcv2-docroot/student/hot_topics/bioluminescence/default.htmlI have seen fireflies many times, occasionally glow worms. In salt water, there are plankton and small jellyfishlike creatures that are a problem to navies, because they make so much light on dark night when disturbed by the ship's wake that the ship's location can be seen for many miles. Recently a Ukranian scientist was charged with betraying state secrets for publishing a paper about this!
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Yes, Jo, you are correct that if you referred to a zit as a spot in the US, no one would know what you are talking about. John Cleese's "spotty twit" would be translated into USnese as "zit-faced nerd."
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Just wait one minute WW, Lilies, a member of the onion family, with bulbs that have a scales (more like a garlic bulb than a onion) are one plant, but daylilies, are whole 'nother plant!
daylilies--hemerocallis-- have foliage that is long spears, that grow tall and arch over.. the flowers appear on leafless slalks, the large buds (edible!) open to a an orange flower with a deeper redder color in the throat. (common Daylilies) but hybrid Daylillies come in almost ever color of the rainbow, from "Little grapette" the color of a frosty grape ice, to "gentle Shepard" a very, very pale yellow --almost white, to "Stelle D'oro" a deep golden yellow, and "Bonny Barbara Allan" a pale peachy pink-- but one commonality..
each flower --a flower stalk might have 25 to 50 buds, and a mature plant might put up 2 to 5 flower stalks--each flower only last one day.. that is why they are day lilies.. with multiple flower stalks, and so many buds, the flowering season for a day lily can be 6 to 8 weeks.
(now every one get down on your knees and say a "thank you prayer" to god, that i don't have my garden book here, and stopped after one paragraph about daylilies!)
Lilies, are tall grace full plants, with whirls of foliage on the stem, and the flowers appear on the top of the stem. there are oriental, Asiatic and common (tiger) lilies. and while they are members of the Onion family, lily bulbs are poisonous. and it seemed you were talking about lilies, since lilies do sometimes have little bulblets at the place were the leave attaches to the stem. lilies have a strong aroma, daylilies, almost none.
(and lilies of the valley, is yet again a whole nother plant!)
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Behold the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin.......
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i wonder if this is temperture related--some of these transplanted ones will develop the little suckers (miniature plants) on that leafless stem, since in 30 years i have never seen one, in NY!
In china town grocery stores, you can buy a 1 lb. bag of dried daylily buds.. they sort of taste like green beans, but sweeter.. they are used in "hot and sour soup" and many mixed vegetable dishes.
common daylilies are common in NY too, and are hardy to the middle of Canada. some think they are originally from China, so they might be common in europe too.
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I guess what I have heard called "tiger' lilies are very close to what you call "day" lilies. One of our friends had a very tough little boy, whose mother thought to protect her tiger lilies by telling him "The tigers would get him if he pulled up any of the flowers". She came back a bit later, and found them all pulled up, and her son proudly told her "The damned tigers didn't get me!" Here is a URL with pictures of some lilies. Not as good as I hoped for. http://members3.clubphoto.com/michael262713/118833/guest_icons.phtml
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Dr. bill that is a great-- If you double click on the photo's, (thumbnails) they get bigger..
the day(Tiger) lily is a Lily (Onion family) and the "curled up lilies is too, (and in that photo, you can see the plant foliage..
the Daylily close up, and the Daylilies in the garden show daylilies.. the second clearly shows the daylily foliage, and the foliage free stalks that daylily flowers grow on. as does the "bending in the breeze" photo.
but the daylilies and Margarites, has real lilies.. its almost as if the person taking the photos, or creating the web site didn't know the difference.
the bending in the breeze photo looks like a "chicago royal robe" daylily. i can't be sure, but Chicago Royal
Robe is a deep rich red, with a deep golden throat.
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Yes, we have daylillies in the UK. There was a clump in my lovely Yorkshire garden (the garden was planted in the thirties by an expert horticulturalist, I was very greatful as she didn't see many of the plants come to maturity).
The ones in the photograph (thanks Bill), as described by Helen are what I know as daylilies. The others (including tiger lillies) are true lilies. I grow quite a variety, here in Scotland, they look more exotic than they are.
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= Torches at a meeting of the clans in Survivor.
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Dear TEd: that would be inclandescent.
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yep, that sure clears *that up - jess look in them Day Lily pitchurs at that thar All American Tiger... aw, sheesh... 
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wwh: I was reading tonight through some old posts, and came across one of your illuminating ones. You included a link to a mushroom site, and there I read with some degree of fascination about bioluminescence. Here 'tis: One element of folklore that is for real is "foxfire," the colloquial name for the natural bioluminescence exhibited by an assemblage of gilled fungi that invade wood. Most common among mushroom species from the tropics, the responsible photogen "luciferin" produces light ranging in color from blue to green to yellow. Rarely formed in freed spores, it can cause the ground beneath fruit bodies to glow at night. But more often it is the mushroom itself or its aggregated hyphal strands that luminesce. In North America two prevalent examples are (1) the rhizomorphs of the virulent hardwood parasite Armillariella mellea that permeates downed trunks; its fruit body is the edible Honey Cap or Banana Mushroom responsible for aborting fructifications of the agaric Entoloma abortivum, and (2) the gills of the pumpkin-colored poisonous mushroom (Omphalatus olearius) that is frequently mistaken for a chanterelle; known appropriately as Old Stomachache or Jack O'Lantern, its tissues have the distinction of turning green on cooking -- a character not seen for any edible mushroom.http://www.mpm.edu/collect/botany/mushroom.htmlSo, in the above we learn more about triboluminescent cousins foxfire and a new kind of Jack O'Lantern. Best regards, WW
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