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dyscalculia

noun PSYCHIATRY

severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.

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Maths version of

dyslexia

noun

a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence.

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pillock

noun

INFORMAL BRITISH

a stupid person.

"a complete pillock!"

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Marmorkrebs

The marbled crayfish or Marmorkrebs, is a parthenogenetic crayfish that was discovered in the pet trade in Germany in the 1990s.[5] Marbled crayfish are closely related to the "slough crayfish", Procambarus fallax,[4] which is widely distributed across Florida

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish

How many other versions of Marmorkrebs, don't mean crabs but sea or land animals about their size?

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tranche

noun

a portion of something, especially money.

"they released the first tranche of the loan"

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rusticate

University

verb

1. 1.
   go to, live in, or spend time in the country.
   
   
2. 2.
   fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunk joints and a roughened surface.
   "the stable block was built of rusticated stone"

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A word for going to live in the countryside?

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“Aperitif” French for a set of dentures

Goon Show years ago on British Radio

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sputter

verb
gerund or present participle: sputtering

1. 1.
   make a series of soft explosive sounds, typically when being heated or as a symptom of a fault.
   "the engine sputtered and stopped"
2. 2.
   PHYSICS
   deposit (metal) on a surface by using fast ions to eject particles of it from a target.target.

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I thought the word was splutter

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When first I encountered that word, it was in reference to a man being permanently expelled from a medieval univerity
("go back to the farm boy")
later it was a temporary suspension.
and
then
used much as i use it.

 

Rustic - of the countryside I knew

Rusticate I didn't

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dyscalculia

noun - PSYCHIATRY

severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.

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That specific?

 

DysDatcalculia :

Another example of the same affliction?

 

Corruption of Blood

Noooo not blood poisoning

The Corruption of Blood Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3 c. 145) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which abolished corruption of blood for all crimes except high treason, petty treason and murder.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_of_Blood_Act_1814

Prior to being abolished the act meant that if a person was convicted of certain crimes, his descendants would be barred from inheriting his property, stripped of any hereditary titles they might have held, and that all his descendants in perpetuity would be forever barred from holding titles or owning land

High treason, petty treason and murder were abolished later

perpetuity

noun

1 a bond or other security with no fixed maturity date.

2. LAW

a restriction making an estate inalienable perpetually or for a period beyond certain limits fixed by law.

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Dascalculia - cannot find. Attempts change Dascalculia to Dyscalculia

Would Dascalculia be an American spelling?

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Just another one of demcalculias

 

Even demcalculias not show

Have you the feature where if you want to copy or delete a word you long press and a black bar appears with options?

Recently my version of the black line shows Define as a option

Selecting that option goes to a definition (not always the same place)

Perhaps not all definitions in the default (?) place, which seems to be Definitions from Oxford Languages

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Don't think I do.This is a pc.

 

osso buco

noun

noun: ossobuco

an Italian dish made with veal shank containing marrowbone, stewed in wine with vegetables and seasonings.

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When I first saw ossobuco I thought what has opera to do with cooking?

"’O sole mio" (Neapolitan pronunciation: [o ˈsoːlə ˈmiːə]) is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/'O_sole_mio

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atavistic

adjective

relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

"atavistic fears and instincts"

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Atavism and Human Tails

True examples of atavism, like the ta2 chicken, are data points indicative of common ancestry between species. In the case of human beings, the presence of a tail is a striking example of such ancestry. Many cases of people born with "tails" exist in the medical literature, but it is not always clear whether these appendages are "true" tails or not. In some instances, they are actually "pseudotails," or malformations that just happen to be located near a person's tailbone. True tails, however, result from a particular type of error during fetal development.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/atavism-embryology-development-and-evolution-843/

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faff

Noun

faff (plural faffs)

(British, slang) An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.

Synonyms: Thesaurus: nuisance

Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
(typically in the phrase 'in a faff') A state of confused or frantic activity.

Synonyms: flap

She's in a total faff about tonight's dinner party.

Verb

faff (faffs, present participle faffing; past and past participle faffed)

(British, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.

Synonyms: arse around, dick around

She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast.

I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license

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Tetrachromacy

Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet...mong several,reptile, insect and some mammals.

Four channels, not just three

Here's me with barely two

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