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cucullate
adjective
resembling a cowl or hood.
More about cucullate
While cucullate may sound like it refers to the call of some bird, it actually means 鈥渞esembling a cowl or hood,鈥� an adjective emerging in the late 1700s, used especially to describe the shape of petals, sepals, leaves, etc. Cucullate derives from Latin Latin 肠耻肠耻濒濒腻迟耻蝉 “having a hood,” based on cucullus 鈥渃overing, hood, cowl.鈥� Cowl, the hooded garment worn by monks, also ultimately comes from Latin cucullus.
how is cucullate used?
The proximal portion of such “cucullate” petals may be hood-shaped and then forms a chamber enclosing the anthers.
Transplantation experiments in Norway showed that when the normal form was moved to a quieter site it grew a new blade that was cucullate in form.
More about strepitous
Strepitous comes from Latin strepitus 鈥渘oise,鈥� from strepere 鈥渢o make noise, rattle, clatter.鈥� Strepere also yields (through the verb obstrepere 鈥渢o make noise at鈥�) the Latin adjective obstreperus 鈥渃濒补尘辞谤辞耻蝉.鈥� Obstreperus is the source of a more familiar synonym for strepitous: obstreperous. Strepitous entered English in the late 1600s.
how is strepitous used?
The New Orleans-based songwriter … leans into more explicitly gospel territory here, letting his strepitous guitar take a backseat to an upright-piano melody and choral harmonies.
The fair in its last years degenerated into the usual thing we understand nowadays as a fair: … a gaudy and strepitous saturnalia of roundabouts and mountebanks.
salutary
adjective
promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome.
More about salutary
Salutary ultimately comes from Latin 蝉补濒奴蝉 (inflectional stem 蝉补濒奴迟-) 鈥渉ealth, welfare, safety.鈥� In its sense of 鈥減romoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose; wholesome,鈥� salutary entered English in the late 1400s. Salutary, in its sense of 鈥渇avorable to or promoting health; healthful,鈥� emerged in the mid-1600s. A synonym for salutary (鈥渉ealthful鈥�) is salubrious, which is also rooted in Latin 蝉补濒奴蝉. 厂补濒奴蝉 could also mean 鈥済reeting,鈥� as in greeting someone with 鈥渂est wishes (for their well-being).鈥� This meaning of 蝉补濒奴蝉 gave rise to the verb 蝉补濒奴迟腻谤别 鈥渢o greet, hail,鈥� source of the English noun and verb salute.
how is salutary used?
After Gutenberg, books became widely available, setting off a cascade of salutary movements and innovations, including but not limited to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the steam engine, journalism, modern literature, modern medicine, and modern democracy.
However salutary these tactics may be with regard to the evaporation of the national debt in the countries just mentioned, the fact is nevertheless incontestable that the gold mentality of the world remains unaffected.