Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘titan arum’.
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Lifeforms with which I'd like to comm...
Perhaps by means of animal communication.
mould, seaweed, teenager, cheesemite, dugong, spoonbill, new caledonian bu..., forb, titan arum, hydroblab, actuary, william shatner and 6 more...
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vegetation
names of plants, flowers, trees, etc.
laburnum, mignonette, ilex, vetch, sedge, gentian, plane, linden, jade plant, ginkgo, dragon tree, agave and 50 more...
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Conceptions
Ideas of interesting things.
gharial, ungulate, glossolalia, druze, bultitude, maraschinos, pfifltriggi, borscht, electrifying, instrumentality, lion-eating poet ..., landsknecht and 60 more...
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joshleejosh yarb, in a comment on "pulchritudinous": "I couldn't deny any word the right to exist, assuming words have rights, but this is still a sickly, cloying titan arum of an adjective."
I had to go look up what a titan arum is. Terrifying flower! Awesomely evocative term. Aug 23, 2008