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biocenosis: state of association of creatures in a certain region
Now here's an interesting word to consider, wwh. Is this state of association necessarily positive--symbiotic--or negative? Or neither? Is this state of association simply the interconnection of species that happen to inhabit the same region?
Very cool word to give us here. I still think human beings should be classified as being fodient. 
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biolith: rock formed by living creatures
...and another one that's interesting. I can think of fossils. They would be rocks formed by living creatures. And limestone? That comes largely from shells and remains of sea creatures, so would limestone be a form of biolith?
Edit: Now that I reconsider, perhaps coral reefs would be a better example of bioliths. Perhaps limestone takes too long to form to be considered a form of biolith.
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birostrate: double-beaked
Name one. Name one animal that has two beaks. I will research this today.
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AThe dictionary definition says the;y are interdependent.
biocenosis
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5ModL < BIO3 + Gr koinbsis, a mingling < koinoun, to share < koinos, common: see COENO36 a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals Also bi#o[coe[no4sis 73si nb4sis8 or bi#o[ce$nose# 73sc4nbs#8
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Dear WW: I have read that the "rostrum" from which speakers orate, derived from
Jesus having spoken to his disciples from the bow of a boat drawn up on the shore.
Some boats have bow and stern identically pointed, or instance the New England
codfish dory. They could be described as "birostrate". Then there is the guy whose
beak looks so much like his bottom his bowels don't know which way to run. Would
you say he was "birotrate"?
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"rostrum" from which speakers orate, derived from Jesus having spoken to his disciples from the bow of a boat drawn up on the shore.
AHD lists, in its defintions of rostrum,:
2b. The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships.
Birostrate sounds to me like it should have something to do with ball-point pens.
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Dear Faldage, I have seen Biro pens, but never birostrate Biro pens. Get that strate.
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NYC's Bowery (now part of 4th Avenue) was originaly the drive entry to peter styvetson's county estate (about 3 miles north of Wall Street-- the old city line!) *Peter's name is spelled wrong... forgive me...
His estate was called the bowery because the entry drive was lined with stately trees forming a bowery. (peter also mapped out the only street in Manhattan to run true east/west--its on a diagonal to most of the city's grid of east/west and North/south streets.
later, this area (just north of chinatown/little Italy, and south east village was the area of the "Bowery Boys" -- 1920 and 30's movies about lovable but rascally kids who where borderline juvenial delinqients. the area was one of poverty and immigrants.
Just to the east of the Bowery is "alphabet city" (there is a bumbed out in Manhattan island-- and instead of the last avenue being 1st Avenue, there are 4 extra avenues, A, B, C and D. tidal action cause the bumb out to collect flotsome and jetsom (or in modern days, 'floaters' dead bodies) which do not enhance the neighborhood or its image.
the area is not unsafe, but it also has not been too gentrified, (tompkom square park area) the Bowery is only about 4 blocks long (from Canal to Houston) then from Houston to Astor Place, its 4th Avenue, above there its Lexington Avenue.
alphabet city was the first site of "public housing" (council flats) in NYC (and the US!) Part of the reform action of Jacob Riis. these are still in use 100 years later.
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there is a bumbed out in Manhattan island
What does this mean, please? Some river feature perhaps?
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you must detest the Official Scrabble® Players Dictionary
You're right. Not for its being precriptive but for its arbitrariness. Although the OSPD isn't really a "dictionary" at all, just a long (yet limited) word list.
It turns out that words have little to do with the game of Scrabble; what counts is how well you master the list of acceptable-tokens-made-of-letters. Stefan Fatsis' book Word Freak alludes to an occasional non-English-speaking player who nevertheless does tolerably well because of a good command of this list. The book even has at its end a list of the words used in it that aren't really "words" after all, meaning they aren't listed in the Dictionary.
Playing the game casually is fine, but at a high level, vocabulary and even the language itself are irrelevant.
[end of it-didn't-start-out-to-be-a-rant]
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