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• zeus commented on the word sessile

  Oxford University Press

  adj. (Biology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about: “an attached oyster”: sesile marine animals and plants”

  monocytes, like all blood cells, are born in the bone marrow and at some point migrate to the spleen, lured by cues yet to be identified. They sit and wait, a sessile bunch, but when aroused by such chemical signatures of damage as angiotensin, the cells surge forth without hesitation

  August 4, 2009

• zeus commented on the word kerfluffles

  Commenting on Political Cartoon content in the News

  There have been minor kerfluffles from the left about drawing Hillary Clinton as insufficiently feminine, and from the right about depicting Condoleezza Rice as servile to President Bush.

  August 4, 2009

• zeus commented on the word Eponymous

  Eponymous Mr. M is also the author of several textbooks on economics. His eponymous blog has received some 10.9 million visits since he started it ..

  So I wanted to know what an eponymous blog was. This is what I finally found.

  one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named. The word can refer, for example, to the usually mythical ancestor or totem animal or object that a social group (such as a tribe) holds to be the origin of its name. In its most familiar use, eponym denotes a person for whom a place or thing is named, as in describing James Monroe as the eponym of Monrovia, Liberia. The derivative adjective is eponymous. An eponymous hero of a work of literature is one whose name is the title of the work, such as Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and John Fowles’s Daniel Martin.

  Entomology (Greek) referred to the word - Name - a word or phrase that constitutes the distinctive designation of a person or thing b: a word or symbol used in logic to designate an entity

  August 4, 2009