Wednesday, June 3, 2020

quasquicentennial

adjective
pertaining to or marking a period of 125 years.

noun

a 125th anniversary.
a celebration marking such an anniversary.

Friday, January 10, 2020

strangelet

A strangelet is a hypothetical particle consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. An equivalent description is that a strangelet is a small fragment of strange matter, small enough to be considered a particle.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

hanami

Hanami (花見, "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Bougainvilliidae

Bougainvilliidae is a family of marine hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Members of the family are found worldwide. There are sixteen accepted genera and about ninety three species.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

dustman

dustman (plural dustmen)
  1. (Britain) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
    • Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman
      Oh, my old man's a dustman
      He wears a dustman’s hat
      He wears cor-blimey trousers
      And he lives in a council flat.
       
       
       

synanthrope

 A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...