Word: arthropod
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What started out as a playfully strange scenario turns positively effed-up when, in his final moments of life as an arthropod, Cee-lo reflects back on a catalogue of memories he’s imagined for their pair: bug and blonde riding a bike. Bug and blonde having a picnic.. Bug and blonde having raunchy sex in every position known to both species...
Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
...anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...
...fever, convulsions and, in some cases, death−can be caused by any of a large variety of viruses or bacteria or can follow a wide range of other illnesses. But the bugs responsible for the current outbreak of encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick up the arboviruses when they bite birds, which usually carry the viruses...
...telescoped designation for arthropod-borne viruses-those transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects...