Paul Keating
June 16th, 2008, 03:33 PM
Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 18 definitions
for
SQUIRINA presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a
random
number generator). You can do this whether or not you have not
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Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on 17
June
2008 at
23:30 PDT
and on 18 June 2008 at
00:30 MDT
01:30 CDT
02:30 EDT
06:30 UTC
07:30 BST
and 08:30 CEST for me.
1. a stringy thread made from the roots of various conifers and used
by certain Native American peoples in sewing and weaving
2. the common name for several types of polyphyletic and paraphyletic
organisms, often associated with toxic algal blooms
3. a small, dark, circular indentation found on some leaves, perh.
from disease
4. a viroid that can infect potatoes, tomatoes, and certain fruit
trees
5. one of the ladies in attendance on the Czarina
6. blue-green algae cultivated as a foodstuff
7. a genus which contains cuttlefish
8. a female lawyer. _rare_
9. a covering
10. an amoeboid animal
11. the daughter of a squire
12. a clopping dance in 5/4 or 5/8 time
13. a lively Spanish dance performed by a couple
14. a type of pasta sauce made with tomatoes, onions and squash
[Port.]
15. a bland soup of potato and lamb, believed to be of South American
origin
16. a small, brightly colored carnivorous gastropod mollusk of the
Caribbean, commonly called pink oyster drill
17. any of various bulbous plants of the genus _Scilla_, having narrow
leaves and bell-shaped blue, white, or pink flowers
18. _Botany_ the spongy, multiple epidermis that covers the aerial
roots of epiphytic orchids and certain other plants and is capable
of absorbing atmospheric moisture
for
SQUIRINA presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a
random
number generator). You can do this whether or not you have not
submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played before. You're not
allowed to
vote if you know the right answer.
Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on 17
June
2008 at
23:30 PDT
and on 18 June 2008 at
00:30 MDT
01:30 CDT
02:30 EDT
06:30 UTC
07:30 BST
and 08:30 CEST for me.
1. a stringy thread made from the roots of various conifers and used
by certain Native American peoples in sewing and weaving
2. the common name for several types of polyphyletic and paraphyletic
organisms, often associated with toxic algal blooms
3. a small, dark, circular indentation found on some leaves, perh.
from disease
4. a viroid that can infect potatoes, tomatoes, and certain fruit
trees
5. one of the ladies in attendance on the Czarina
6. blue-green algae cultivated as a foodstuff
7. a genus which contains cuttlefish
8. a female lawyer. _rare_
9. a covering
10. an amoeboid animal
11. the daughter of a squire
12. a clopping dance in 5/4 or 5/8 time
13. a lively Spanish dance performed by a couple
14. a type of pasta sauce made with tomatoes, onions and squash
[Port.]
15. a bland soup of potato and lamb, believed to be of South American
origin
16. a small, brightly colored carnivorous gastropod mollusk of the
Caribbean, commonly called pink oyster drill
17. any of various bulbous plants of the genus _Scilla_, having narrow
leaves and bell-shaped blue, white, or pink flowers
18. _Botany_ the spongy, multiple epidermis that covers the aerial
roots of epiphytic orchids and certain other plants and is capable
of absorbing atmospheric moisture