..........Pedunculate!
-Kate Moss we salute you!!
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From Wordnet:
The adjective pedunculate has one meaning:
Meaning #1: (biology) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk
Synonym: stalked
Antonym: sessile (meaning #2)
and sessile???
I dunno what Pleurocarp is, but it sounds like some kind of fish that lives in the lungs!
Ask Webster:
Pleu·ro·car·pic
Pleu·ro·car·pous , a.
(Bot.) Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.
I'll leave you all to look up all the even more obscure words that the definiton has in it for yourselves!! 
Websters may be ""right""-but I think BeckyG,s description is ""better"".
Bluejam.
that is beyond my understanding as a nursery nurse especially one working in the NHS. he he
On a related theme Kate-as you are a ""Moss"" are YOU pleurocarpic????
-just kidding!!
Bluejam.
Well done,
A pleurocarpic moss is one that crawls along and has branches - like the stuff in your lawns.
No Blue Jam, I am a Acrocarpic moss -one of those neat little cushion jobs - has straight up stalks with the fruiting capsules at the top.
Fruiting capsules"" -
-we men always find these fascinating!
Bluejam.
Oooooer missus!! Steady you lot!
Kate, you are leading the AUK troops astray (again)!
Men in uniform…..fruiting capsules….what ever next….the darling buds of May?
Take hair,
Derek
Ooops! Sorry!
Deek - I must be the Pied Piper of the Penguins! LOL!
Now can we have a new word to guess that is sensible??
Dendrochronology.
Dendrochronology-a history of Dirty Dens appearances on Eastenders??
ROFL whilst trying desparately to keep wig on head,
Bluejam I think you may be barking up the wrong tree - LOL
No, it can't be that, Dirty Den was thrown oot with the dead wood along time ago although his reputation does appear to have sustainable roots.
Something about this word just does not ring true.
Take hair,
Derek
Dendro = related to trees or a tree-like structure
Chrono = related to time
-ology = the study of something
So, I'm guessing - the study of the age of trees, or change of trees over time?
Counting the rings, methinks!
May I offer up an absolutely lovely word: milquetoasty.
What does it mean? And a bonus for telling us how to pronounce it!
Dendrochronology - pronounced Den-dro-cro-nology is the study of tree rings - well done! 10 points to Cath. Deek - no points for doubting me!
The study and counting of tree rings can be used to determine how old a tree is, either by cutting it down ( bit destructive) or by taking a core sample.
weather, water, drought and all sorts of environmental conditions create variations in the rings thickness. thin ring - drought year etc.
These years can be logged over hundreds of years and are kept on a database / bank to be used to determine age of old wood in old buildings and archaeological digs like tree henges or wood preserved for over a thousand years in bogs.
you can work your way back as the ring patterns will overlap (eg a tree from 1882 - 1996 overlaps with a tree from 1664 to 1902 etc with the ring patterns and so on)
Very usefull for natural history of our changing landscape and what happened in the past etc.
sorry, ecology lesson over!
Kate
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My sources inform me that Kate is correct - named after a cartoon character of the same surname, who was a shy, retiring type (apparently) - who was in turn named because he was ""as limp as milk toast"".
Ok, my turn - Gastrocnemius.
10 points to Cath - nul points to deek! Whats that o' aboot!!!
barking up wrong tree...dead wood ...does not ring true. Helloooooooo!!!
A clear case of ...the lights are on but there's nae budy at hame - LOL
It's an injustice.
I rest my wig ma lord,
Derek
If you ever get cramp in the back of your lower leg - calf - it’s probably the gastrocnemius muscle causing that excruciating spasm. Runners will also be familiar with the longer lasting soreness of this muscle
Known as the ‘belly of the calf’ - presumably because of its mid leg location
Etymological roots of this word are Greek, - ‘gastro’ meaning belly and (k) neme meaning ‘leg’ in Greek.
Okay guys another word coming up. Ultracrepidarian.
What a fantastic word. However, its meaning is outside the scope of my knowledge
PS: Poor Deek! Have 10 points from a moderator.
Touche Peaksteve!
Your reply/answer is unwittingly, wittingly, - wittily even - on the right lines!
But wrong topic?!
Mia
Can't forget to give Mia her 10 points, for a well-constructed answer on the subject of the calf muscle (although don't forget its partner in crime, the lesser-well-known Soleus).
My brain isn't working well enough to come up with another word yet....
'Partner in crime lesser well known' soleus muscle is attached to the heelbone (calcaneous) hence its link with the Latin definition, -sandal or sole. But some would argue they -soleus and gastrocmenius)- are just all part of that great big calf muscle in the sky/leg.
Can I have dix pointes maintenant? S’il vous plait?
And why does the European- song –contest- linked -null pointes keep rattling my consciousness? Answers on a cyber linked post please Derek.
After two glasses of organic Chateauneuf etc my brain is working well enough to come up with another word. (Hope you don’t mind Cathbear)
Tatterdemalion. Just love the sound,and meaning, of this one!
Deek, sorry, I thought you were stating that it was a 'made-up' word!
Sending a wig straightner in compensation LOL!
Kate
