ZOOTYPE

Etymology

Noun

zootype (plural zootypes)

(biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.

(symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.

Source: Wiktionary



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27 January 2025

FISSILE

(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”


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Coffee Trivia

In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.

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