In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
arrowworm, chaetognath
(noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
arrowworm (plural arrowworms)
(zoology) A transparent marine worm of the phylum Chaetognatha, found in plankton.
Source: Wiktionary
Ar"row*worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 March 2025
(noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.