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Words for the Last Day of Taurus.

post a comment | posted May 20

Anthophilous - Feeding upon or living among flowers.

Ornithophilous - Flowers pollinated by birds.

Entomophilous - Flowers pollinated by antophilous insects such as bees.

Melittophilous - Plants that are pollinated by bees.

Velar - 1: formed with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate 2: of, forming, or relating to a velum and especially soft palate. 3: used by phonologists to refer to the position of the tongue in relation to the soft palate when making certain sounds. (Derived from Latin velum meaning curtain or veil.) Example: The word keg contains two velar consonants; k and g.

Other terms for articulation:

Palatal: tongue against the roof of the mouth

Dental: tongue against upper teeth

Alveolar: tongue against the inner surface of the gums and the upper front teeth.

Élan - vigorous spirit or enthusiasm. (From French s'eslancer meaning to rush, to dash, or to hurl oneself forth. We used to have a word called elance meaning to hurl when throwing lances and darts. With the decline of lance-throwing we adopted élan but dispensed with the French literal sense of to rush or to dash, but we have retained the the connotation of enthusiastic animation that we sometimes characterize as "dash.")

Insuperable - incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved.

My favorite for this group:

Umbrage - 1: shade, shadow 2: shady branches ; foliage 3a: an indistinct indication : vague suggestion b: a reason for doubt 4: resentment, offense.
["Deare amber lockes gave umbrage to her face." This line from a poem by William Drummond, published in 1616, uses "umbrage" in its original sense of "shade, shadow," a meaning shared by its Latin source, "umbra." ("Umbella," the diminutive form of "umbra," means "a sunshade or parasol" in Latin and is an ancestor of our word "umbrella.") Beginning in the early 17th century, "umbrage" was also used to mean "a shadowy suggestion or semblance of something," as when Shakespeare, in _Hamlet_, wrote, "His semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more." In the same century, "umbrage" took on the pejorative senses "a shadow of suspicion cast on someone" and "displeasure, offense"; the latter is commonly used today in the phrases "give umbrage" or "take umbrage."]

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