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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread sea-eggs #108708 07/25/2003 7:30 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Darwin is describing the inhabitants of Tiera del Fuego, and their food: "Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line without any hook, jerk out little fish." What can "sea-eggs" be? Being underwater, they can't be birds' eggs. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sea-eggs #108709 07/25/2003 7:38 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Sea urchins http://www.barbadosmarinetrust.com/sea_eggs.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sea-eggs #108710 07/25/2003 8:12 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: I couldn't make your link work.And it wouldn't let me copy it. But I found another link, that says yes, they are edible, but also mentions their having very painful prickers. How do you suppose the Fuegian women could collect them underwater in rough surf, withoug getting their hands badly hurt? http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=sea+urchins+edible&ei=UTF-8 Dear Faldage: they must be a lot better eating than I would have imagined, for it to be necessary to have a law to protect them. On the second try, the URL worked. And apparently they are not as hard to handle as I thought from previous reading about them. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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