Word: meadowed
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...British writer John Fowles, embracing as he grew older the pleasures of meadow and garden, saw this clearly. “What has to be done,” he said, “is to get this vast and growing army of the indifferent to see nature as a daily pleasure of the civilized life.” He turned his own talents as a writer to this task, allowing his imagination transport back to June evenings spent with “cream-white furbelows, bee-loud and brave against an azure sea of the acacias...
...Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly is unique, found in all the world only on 2,000 acres of high meadow in the village of Cloudcroft, N.M. (pop. 768, altitude 8,640 ft.), and the adjoining Lincoln National Forest. The 2-in. checkerspot colorfully floods Burro Street, Cloudcroft's main drag, every summer, and it takes its scientific name--Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti--from the town that shares its habitat...
CARACAS In the Venezuelan capital, buyers scoop up Lenox's Butterfly Meadow Tiger Swallowtail...
...outing: gentlemen, grab your sunocles (sunocle = sunglass monocle). This round is all about confidence and fitting in. Remember they’re just as uncomfortable as you are. [citation needed]. Don’t make the same mistake we did. Chiappini still remembers lying on soft meadow grass with a Delphic member, remarking that a cloud looked like a bunny. The member retorted, “No, it’s a Delphic. They’re all Delphics.” To always have a relevant conversation topic, bring along a talisman related to the club?...
...compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively to describe an aroma note or type which is 'of the countryside,' such as hay, heather, forest depths or meadow." Who knew? Elsewhere, fantasy-game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous (streaked or mixed with gray) in describing rocks and minerals. Apparently, one man's linguistic...