Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pl. scalpella (-ä). One of the four filamentous organs or hair-like lancets contained in the promuscis of hemipterous insects. The upper pair of scalpella are homologous with mandibles, the lower pair with maxillæ.
- n. [capitalized] A genus of thoracic cirripeds of the family Pollicipedidæ, related to Ibla, and notable in presenting in some species the sexes distinct, in others hermaphrodites with complemental males.
Examples
“Bibliological Maledictions Revisited" in Maledicta (1978), featuring a dozen multilingual book curses that would have rounded out this introduction with such unusual macaronic curses as ... in ventrem illius I'll stick my scalpellum/And teach him to steal my little libellum, or William Barnes's four-line curse in Italian, Latin, French, and English.”
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Finer Points
Objects like needles and spines whose tips are drawn to a fine point.
poynet, prickpunch, spine, needle, pin, baton, glochid, quill, beak, stylet, trocar, harelip-needle and 66 more...
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Botany & Other Sciences
Weird/funny/unknown to me plant names, botany terms, & other science vocabulary.
cicely, thrave, osmunda, turnsole, bosky, auxin, xerarch, lycophyte, anthophilous, ramose, scalpellum, scape and 27 more...
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