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bacciferous
adjective
Botany. bearing or producing berries.
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The English adjective bacciferous 鈥渂earing berries鈥� comes from Latin bacca (also b膩ca) 鈥渇ruit of a shrub or tree, nut,鈥� a word of unknown origin. The Latin suffix -fer 鈥渃arrying, bearing鈥� is from a very widespread Proto-Indo-European root bher- 鈥渢o carry,鈥� source of Germanic (English) bear, Greek 辫丑茅谤别颈苍 鈥渢o carry, bear,鈥� and Slavic (Polish) 产颈别谤补膰 鈥渢o carry.鈥� Bacciferous entered English in the 17th century.
how is bacciferous used?
Bacciferous trees, are such as bear berries; as the juniper and yew-tree.
The rays of the sun are essential to the proper development of all fruits, yet some, especially the bacciferous, demand a certain amount of shade in Summer and protection in Winter …
Disneyfy
verb
to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
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Disneyfy is an Americanism formed from the name of Walt Disney, the cartoonist and moviemaker (1901-66), and the familiar verb suffix -fy. Disneyfy entered English in the second half of the 20th century.
how is Disneyfy used?
In North America we tend to Disneyfy the past into this sugar-coated nostalgia product, all bonnets and merry sleigh rides …
… Dad says you have to look at animals as they are, not Disney-fy them.
superluminal
adjective
Astronomy. appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
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One of the Latin sources for the English adjective superluminal 鈥渇aster than the speed of light鈥� is the very familiar prefix and preposition super- 鈥渁bove, beyond.鈥� The second Latin source is the adjective 濒奴尘颈苍艒蝉耻蝉 鈥渇illed with light, dazzling, luminous鈥� a derivative of the noun 濒奴尘别苍 鈥渓ight, radiance,鈥� from an assumed leuksmen or louksmen, a derivative of the root noun lux (stem luc-) 鈥渓ight.鈥� The same root, leuk- (and its variant louk-) lies behind the Latin noun 濒奴苍补 鈥渕oon,鈥� from an assumed 濒辞耻办蝉苍腻. Superluminal entered English in the 20th century.
how is superluminal used?
But what if the spaceship breaks the speed of light? Now, we are entering the purely theoretical realm of superluminal travel. The spaceship is outracing the light it emits, so when the spaceship takes off, it leaves its own light in the space-dust.
The Alderson Drive gave us access to the stars at superluminal speeds–but not instantaneous transportation.