Word: funguses
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There is an ant queen who has a pocket in her head and combs on her feet. After her travels through dirt, she combs her body for earth with which to grow a garden of fungus in her pocket. When she has found a crevice in which to set up housekeeping, she deposits the garden beside her, fertilizes it by breaking some of her own eggs. When the rest of the eggs hatch into worker-ants, they assume the task of tending the garden...
...bryophyte is a fungus. True or false, gentlemen...
...they have cataloged, renamed and numbered all, certain hospitals will practice with the new nomenclature. Chronic invalids could look forward to entertaining themselves with the numerological rigmarole of their numerous ailments; to swapping anecdotes or "stumping" each other on 64-309 (penetrating wound of the stomach) or 612-13 (fungus-ringworm-disease of the tongue...
Unleashed in an oak grove where truffles (warted, globular fungus growths) are found, they race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...
...certain Mr. Midwood, standing among 250,000 people who spread like a dark fungus around the crooked oval that is the Aintree course, the moments between the last jump and the finish must have been trying. Mr. Midwood is a Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse races, who once paid $53,000 for Silvio to win the Grand National, but failed, and admits that he does not know the pedigree of Shaun Goilin, whom he calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned...