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More about frugivorous
The English adjective frugivorous 鈥渇ruit-eating鈥� is used mostly in biology to describe animals that eat fruit. The first element, frugi-, is a combining form of Latin frux 鈥渇ruit, crops, produce鈥� related to the verb 蹿谤耻墨 鈥渢o enjoy the fruits or products or results of.鈥� From the form 蹿谤奴驳- English has frugal and frugivorous. From fructus, the past participle of 蹿谤耻墨 (from an assumed 蹿谤奴驳耻墨), English has fruit (from Old French, from Latin 蹿谤奴肠迟耻蝉) and fructify (from Old French fructifier, from Latin 蹿谤奴肠迟颈蹿颈肠腻谤别). The second element, -vorous, ultimately comes from Latin 惫辞谤腻谤别 鈥渢o swallow ravenously,鈥� whence English has devour (from Middle French devourer, from Latin d膿惫辞谤腻谤别 鈥渢o swallow down,鈥� and voracious (from Latin 惫辞谤腻肠-, the stem of vorax 鈥渞avenous, insatiable.鈥� Frugivorous entered English in the 18th century.
how is frugivorous used?
… the frugivorous bats, and the fruit-eating quadrumana, including the gorgeous mandrill, are the most highly-coloured of the Mammalia.
Fruit, by the way, was all their diet. … while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also.
More about velitation
English velitation comes from Latin 惫脓濒颈迟腻迟颈艒苍- (stem of 惫脓濒颈迟腻迟颈艒) 鈥渟kirmish,鈥� ultimately a derivation of 惫脓濒别蝉 (stem 惫脓濒颈迟-) 鈥渓ight-armed foot soldier wearing little armor, skirmisher,鈥� which is a derivative from the adjective 惫脓濒辞虫 (stem 惫脓濒艒肠-) 鈥渜uick, rapid, speedy鈥� (and the source of English velocity). The 惫脓濒颈迟脓蝉, a specialized unit of soldiers in the ancient Roman army, were armed with swords, javelins, and small round shields and were stationed in front of the legionary lines. Before the main action began, these skirmishers threw their javelins at the enemy lines to break up their formation and then rapidly withdrew to the rear of the legionary lines. 痴脓濒颈迟脓蝉 as a type of soldier or unit in the Roman army were relatively brief: they are first mentioned about 211 b.c. in the dark, dark days (for Rome) of the Second Punic War (218鈥�201 b.c.). The 惫脓濒颈迟脓蝉 were probably formed owing to lowered property qualifications for military service in 214 b.c. and were drawn from the lowest, youngest, and poorest citizens. 痴脓濒颈迟脓蝉 are last mentioned in the Jugurthine War of 112-106 b.c.; presumably they were subsumed into the centuries (a company consisting of approximately 100 men) in a later reorganization of the Roman army. Velitation entered English in the 17th century.
how is velitation used?
… let him read those Pharsalian fields fought of late in France for religion, their massacres, wherein by their own relations in twenty-four years I know not how many millions have been consumed, whole families and cities, and he shall find ours to be but velitations to theirs.
While the ladies in the tea-room of the Fox Hotel were engaged in the light snappish velitation, or skirmish, which we have described, the gentlemen who remained in the parlour were more than once like to have quarrelled more seriously.
More about grok
Grok was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961).
how is grok used?
Digital utopians have come in for criticism (sometimes in these pages) for failing fully to grok the messy realities of politics and the virtues of old-fashioned shoe leather in political protest …
Our gray matter is so complex, scientists lament, that it can鈥檛 quite understand itself. But if we can鈥檛 grok our own brains, maybe the machines can do it for us.