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And Pilate said: "Ecce homo!"
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A word I learned in Basic Training.
cadre
n.
5Fr, a frame < It quadro < L quadrum, a square: see QUADRATE6
1 basic structure or framework
2 an operational unit, as of staff officers or other key personnel, around which an expanded organization can be built
3 a small, unified group organized to instruct or lead a larger group; nucleus
4 a member of a political, esp. Communist, cadre
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We all know what an :ecdysiast" is. In entomology, an ecdysone is a hormone that induces
molting in insects.
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The dried rhizome, roots, or other parts of any of three composite herbs used in
folk medicine. (stupid writer did not name the plants.)
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rh[zome
n.
5ModL rhizoma < Gr rhizbma < rhizousthai, to take root < rhiza, ROOT16 a creeping stem lying, usually horizontally, at or under the surface of the soil and differing from a root in having scale leaves, bearing leaves or aerial shoots near its tips, and producing roots from its undersurface
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A rounded molding forming bell of a Greek Doric capital of a column.
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An inprovised shop, often just a few stocked shelves against a wall.
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There used to be three subdivisions of schizophrenia. Paranoid, hebephrenic (childlike)
and catatonic (almost rigid, no affect). Some catatonics would repeat examiner's words or motions.
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echinus
...should have a root meaning "spiny." There is a whole phylum of lower animals called echinoderms with spiny skins, of which the starfish is the paradigm.
(From Winnie-the-Pooh:
"...And all of the things which an animal likes
Have the wrong sort of flavour or too many spikes..."
but he was talking of thistles. Tiggers don't like thistles. Which, being plants, are not echinoderms, spikes or no.)
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