matrilocality

 In social anthropology, matrilocal residence or matrilocality (also uxorilocal residence or uxorilocality) is the societal system in which a married couple resides with or near the wife's parents. Thus, the female offspring of a mother remain living in (or near) the mother's house, thereby forming large clan-families, typically consisting of three or four generations living in the same place.

arc-boutant

 

arc-boutant (plural arc-boutants)

1. (architecture) Synonym of flying buttress
   
   
    
   
   
   
   

davit

 A davit (pronounced "dayvit" or see Wiktionary) is any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors.

 

achlorophyllous

 achlorophyllous (not comparable)

1. (botany) not having chlorophyll and, hence, unable to engage in photosynthesis

 Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe

stiffrump

 'stiffrump' (18th century): an obstinate and haughty individual who refuses to budge no matter what.

spirochaete

 A spirochaete (/ˈspaɪroʊˌkiːt/) or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetota (/-ˈkiːtiːz/), (synonym Spirochaetes)  which contains distinctive diderm (double-membrane) gram-negative bacteria, most of which have long, helically coiled (corkscrew-shaped or spiraled, hence the name) cells.

 

Many organisms within the Spirochaetota phylum cause prevalent diseases. Pathogenic members of this phylum include the following:

• Leptospira species, which causes leptospirosis
• Borrelia burgdorferi, B. mayonii, B. bissettiae, B. garinii, B. afzelii, B. spielmanii, B. lusitaniae, which cause Lyme disease.
• Borrelia recurrentis, which causes relapsing fever
• Treponema pallidum subspecies which cause treponematoses such as syphilis and yaws.
• Brachyspira pilosicoli and Brachyspira aalborgi, which cause intestinal spirochaetosis

 

cigarette sandwich

When you either have no food in the house or you’re on a low calorie diet and decide to have a cigarette instead of a meal.