PREOCULARS

Noun

preoculars

plural of preocular

Anagrams

• operculars, pro-secular

Source: Wiktionary


PREOCULAR

Pre*oc"u*lar, a. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects.

– n.

Definition: One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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