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Word: schizocarp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelty lies in the organization. Dickson provides perfectly sensible categories like Outdoors Words, in which we learn that a schizocarp is a seed pod that breaks into two or more pieces, or Alimentary Words, in which we learn that funistrada is an imaginary food invented by the U.S. armed services to use as a control in polls asking soldiers which foods they like (funistrada came out higher than eggplant or cranberry juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adoxography | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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