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slumberland
noun
an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
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Slumberland is a humorous, poetic, or childish word. It first appears in the Decadent poet Algernon Swinburne鈥檚 Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems (1882): 鈥淭he great good wizard … Takes his strange rest at heart of slumberland.” Slumber, “to sleep, doze,” comes from Middle English听slumeren,听frequentative of听slumen “to doze,” itself a derivative of Old English听蝉濒奴尘补 “sleep.”
how is slumberland used?
… Drew Ackerman created a podcast to lead listeners into slumberland.
Every time the boy thinks he has ushered them into slumberland, with the goal of getting some shut-eye himself, a new obstacle pops up (鈥淚s something wrong?鈥� 鈥淚 need my coil!鈥�/ 鈥淢y sensor aches!鈥� 鈥淚 want more oil!鈥�).
foliaceous
adjective
bearing leaves or leaflike parts.
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Foliaceous听鈥渓eaflike, leafy,鈥� is a technical adjective used in botany and other branches of biology. Foliaceous comes straight from Latin 蹿辞濒颈腻肠别耻蝉 (with the same meanings), a derivative of the noun folium 鈥渓别补蹿.鈥� Folium comes from the Proto-Indo-European root bhel-, bhol-, 产丑濒脓-, 产丑濒艒– 鈥渢o bloom, thrive.鈥� The root is the source of Latin 蹿濒艒蝉 (inflectional stem 蹿濒艒谤-) 鈥渇lower,鈥� which through French yields English flower and flour, and Old Irish 产濒腻迟丑 鈥渂lossom, flower.鈥� The Germanic form 产濒艒– yields the Old English noun 产濒艒stma, 产濒艒sma 鈥渂lossom,鈥� and the verb 产濒艒wan 鈥渢o blow, blossom, flourish.鈥� The Greek noun 辫丑媒濒濒辞苍 鈥渓eaf鈥� could be from the same root, except that the y (instead of o) is hard to explain. Foliaceous entered English in the 17th century.
how is foliaceous used?
This Oak presents about the longest trunk of all California foliaceous trees.
The autumn dress of the foliaceous forest is much more varied and rich in colour than even that of the Atlantic forests of North America ….
coalesce
verb (used without object)
to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.
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The English verb coalesce ultimately comes from the Latin compound verb coalescere 鈥渢o grow together, combine,鈥� formed from co-, a variant of the prefix com– 鈥渢ogether, with,鈥� and the verb alescere 鈥渢o grow up, be nourished.鈥� Alescere is composed of the simple verb alere 鈥渢o nourish, suckle, feed,鈥� with the inchoative suffix –esc-, which indicates the beginning of an action (sometimes the suffix has lost its original meaning). Alere comes from the Latin root al– 鈥渢o nourish,鈥� from which Latin also derives alimentum 鈥渘ourishment鈥� (English aliment and alimentary), alumnus 鈥渇oster child, nursling” (English alumnus), 补濒颈尘艒苍颈耻尘 鈥渇ood, support, cost of support鈥� (English alimony), and alma m膩ter 鈥渘ourishing mother, kindly mother,鈥� which by the late 14th century came to refer specifically to universities. Coalesce entered English in the 16th century.
how is coalesce used?
Will the new generation of activists rising across the United States coalesce into a movement capable of uniting a deeply polarized country?
Most friend groups, however, seemed to coalesce around the segment of L.A. they were from, bonds formed through carpools and neighborhood functions rather than schoolyard commingling.