КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «MERDIVOROUS»
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merdivorous в следующих библиографических источниках. Книги, относящиеся к слову
merdivorous, и краткие выдержки из этих книг для получения представления о контексте использования этого слова в литературе на английский языке.
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The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things
The boxer landed a right hook to his opponent's mentum. mentum
M E R D I V O R O U S (m u r- Dl V-u r-us) : adj. from Latin merda excrement) and
English suffix - vorous (eat) : feeding on excrement. The scarab is a good
example of a ...
merdivorous. (mur-DIV-er-es) noun dung eating; coprophagous. Its floral odor
attracts flies and other merdivorous arthropods, some of which pollinate it. This
plant can flower from a corm in a humid atmosphere without soil, and some
people ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories
I think my favorite of all of them was merdivorous, which means exactly what you
think it might. Synonym coprophagous. A merdivorous grin. My sisters knew what
I was doing. So did my parents. None of them stopped me. I think they figured ...
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All That Lives Must Die: Book Two of the Mortal Coils Series
Fiona reddened, angry and embarrassed, as she puzzled out the meanings. She
narrowed her eyes and told him, “I wouldn't talk with your mouth full, merdivorous
Microcebus myoxinus.” Okay, Eliot admitted his insult had been a little mean.
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Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for ...
MERDIVOROUS (mur-DIV-ur-us): adj. from Latin merda (excrement) and English
suffix -vorous (eating): feeding on excrement. “The scarab is a merdivorous
beetle.” MULM:n. the organic sediment (sludge) that collects at the bottom of an ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Finally, to describe certain insects or to calumniate disliked fellow humans, there
are three English words with the one meaning: merdivorous, cacophagous,
coprophagous. Swinburne added a fourth, calling Emerson autocoprophagous:
one's ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
Fabre does not argue that such beetles are attractive because they are
merdivorous. He makes us focus attention beyond that to the interest that in these
beetles is marvelous and enticing. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County
of ...
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Explanation of terms used in entomology
Merdivorous: feeding upon dung or excrement: see scatophagous. Meriaeum:
the posterior inflected part of the metasternum in Coleoptera. Meroistic: ovaries
that secrete yolk or vitellaginous cells as well as ova. Mesad: extending or
directed ...
John Bernhard Smith, 1906
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Jack: A Life Like No Other
They retumed to inform him that the war would be won by the end of 1965. In fact.
it was going so well right now that he could bring home a thousand American
military advisers at the end of 1963. This merdivorous assessment reflected less
a ...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Onlyin Chem. merdi: from L merda,excrement, dung,perh (? by psilosis)akin to
Lith smirdeit, tostink. the L syn of OSl smrudeti, Ex: merdivorous, Gr copro
phagous. meri. See the 1st mero. meric, adj,and merism, n ofcondition: from
isomeric.
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «MERDIVOROUS»
Здесь показано, как национальная и международная пресса использует термин
merdivorous в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
Exit interview with Tarzan: 'The reality is that I hadn't even pooped yet!'
... almost any chess player realizes they are in deep feces. At that point, it's a merdivorous situation...(laughs), that means a poopy situation. «Examiner.com, Май 12»
