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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the antennary sense in certain insects, such as the ants, in which a sense of touch or contact is combined with an olfactory sense.
Wiktionary
- adj. chemistry Describing, or affected by, the orientation of molecules
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Of Ants and Men
While reading Orwell's non-fiction, I ran across his 68 year-old review of this book, which by focusing on the most lurid aspects piqued my interest, and so I checked it out of my library.
myrmecology, scoliid, stirp, huntress, ingluvial, social stomach, annectent, mycelium, formicary, hypha, fungus garden, hypogeic and 20 more...
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yarb It must be a sense of smell whose range and delicacy we, with our extremely poor olfactory equipment, can but dimly imagine, intermingled inextricably with a sense of tactile form, much as the senses of smell and taste are linked for us. This sense has been called the "topochemical" or "contact-odor" one, and the uses which it serves are immensely varied.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 60 Dec 5, 2008