Definitions
Etymologies
- Etymology unknown. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps akin to Irish Gaelic mart, heifer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She also bore another wildman, a science-wallah, a eunuch, a freemartin, and the Princess of the Farther Spaces.”
“You get a freemartin when a female calf has, a twin brother.”
“She hadn't intended to say - "Do I look to you like a freemartin?”
“You can indulge in any number of pleasant vices with a freemartin and run no risks of having your eyes put out by your son's mistress.”
“Hunter's description of freemartin cattle in 1779 (10).”
“Sir Michael Woodruff, the pioneer transplant surgeon in Edinburgh, confirmed the freemartin concept in man when he found a pair of twins, one male the other female, who shared elements of different red cell types.”
“The freemartin story culminates in the report of Billingham, Brent and Medawar describing an acquired immunological tolerance produced by neonatal injection of donor cells into a future allograft recipient (14).”
“Following this Anderson in 1949 reported successful skin allografts between the freemartin and the normal male (13).”
“The trail does not appear again until 1917 when Lillie, not content with mere descriptions, dissected the placentae of several pairs of freemartin cattle and noted the placental intermingling of blood between these differently sexed twins (11).”
“And round her waist she wore a silver-mounted green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging (for Lenina was not a freemartin) with the regulation supply of contraceptives.”
Brave New World
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘freemartin’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Things from my memory
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Brave New World
Words gathered while reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
penitente, pyrrhonic, ossuary, henry-georgian, kropotkinesque, scopolamine, bokanovsky, semi-moron, hypnopaedia, welfare-tyranny, fretsawyer, theremogene and 85 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "She did not set up as a moralist of any kind, she said, but she would not stomach an open affront from anyone on earth, man, woman, or freemartin."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 33 Feb 19, 2008
treeseed Female born twin to a bull calf (about 9 out of 10 of these will not conceive). A sterile heifer born twin with a bull.
Feb 3, 2008