The term of venery for sponges: a sleeze.
Example: The vessel must have rested there many years, as it was more than half covered in a sleeze of the most enormous sponges.
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Dan Levitis, blogger of science
Science:
(n) the messy process by which basically irrational hyper-cephalic primates attempt to ask and answer questions about the world in a way that overcomes their own biases and foibles and simultaneously make a living, build a reputation and do the other things highly social primates need to do.
Dan Levitis, blogger of science
What is this "Blog of Science!" you speak of?
Blog of science isn't one of those science blogs about cool scientific results. It's about the experience of being a scientist doing science. It's about science the process, not science the outcome, or science the list of facts.
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2 comments:
Is 'venery' the word you meant? Dictionary.com: 'noun Archaic .
the gratification of sexual desire.' or 'noun Archaic .
the practice or sport of hunting; the chase.'
A term of venery is a collective noun used for animals. I suppose it comes from hunters describing how they caught whole flocks of geese, schools of fish and sleezes of sponges.
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