Exploring NYC through 26 words
Today I visited Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NY. This sprawling public park was once the site of the 1939 and 1964-65 World’s Fair.
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Here is an example of Jerry-build in Long Island City. I have watched the progression of this building from the platform of Queensboro Plaza station when waiting for the 7 train.
Elutriate (v.):
[Latin (from *elutrium, vat, bath, from Greek *elutrion; see elytron) or elutriare (from elutor, one who washes, from eluere, to wash out; see elute).]
Zenana (n.):
Zenana (Persian/Urdu: , Hindi) refers to the part of a house in South Asian countries such as India and Pakistan reserved for the women of the household. The Zenana is the apartments of an Eastern house in which the women of the family are secluded. This is an Islamic custom, which has been introduced into India and has spread amongst the Hindus.
Zenana (n.): The part of a house in Asian countries such as India and Pakistan reserved for the women of the household.
[Hindi zenana, from Persian, from zan, woman; Indo-European roots.]
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Yashmak (n.):
Yashmak, yashmac or yasmak (from Turkish ya?mak, literally “to cover, hide”) is a Turkish type of veil or niqab worn by many Muslim women to cover their faces in public.
Unlike an ordinary veil, yashmak contains a head-veil and a face-veil in one, thus consisting of two pieces of fine muslin, one tied across the face under the nose and the other tied across the forehead draping the head.
Yashmak can also contain a piece of black horsehair attached close to the temples and sloping down like an awning to cover the face, or it can be a veil covered with pieces of lace, having slits for the eyes, tied behind the head by strings and sometimes supported over the nose by a small piece of gold.
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Xenogenesis (n.):
Xenogenesis (n.): the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal.
Umbel: (Science: plant biology) A racemose inflorescence in which all the individual flower stalks arise in a cluster at the top of the peduncle and are of about equal length.
Umbel (n.): A flat-topped or rounded flower cluster in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point, as in the geranium, milkweed, onion, and chive.
[New Latin umbella, from Latin, parasol, diminutive of umbra, shadow.
Examples of Umbel: Geranium, Milkweed, Onion, Chive, Carrot, Parsley, Dill.
Typhlology (n.): Study of blindness.
* Definition from the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia ©. Helicon Publishing LTD 2007. All rights reserved.
Typhlology (n.): An obsolete term for the branch of science concerned with the causes and prevention of blindness, and the rehabilitation of those afflicted.
* Definition from the On-line Medical Dictionary, published at the Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. © Copyright 1997-2005 – The CancerWEB Project. All Rights Reserved.
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[Latin rete, net.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved,
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