Word: virgula
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TIME is so darned helpful. I had no idea what a virgula in virgulate cercariae was until I read the note that it is a bilobed [organ] near the buccal cavity of styleted xiphidiocercariae [TIME, Jan. 12]; then I understood it perfectly...
...last week some 7,000 scientists milled around Chicago hotels and the University of Chicago. They greeted old friends, bearded professional enemies, drank less than convening Legionnaires but more than Doctors of Divinity. They listened to learned lectures on everything from "Are Basic Needs Ultimate?"* to "What is a Virgula in Virgulate Cercariae?† When they went home to their various campuses and laboratories, they took with them, like the ships of Tarshish, a freight of sound scientific gold & silver - along with a few peacocks and apes...
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