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Distinguishing Taxonomy from Lexicon

September 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Words are everything.
Praying Mantis

TAXONOMY
Kingdom - AnimalPhylum - ArthropodaClass - InsectaOrder -
DictyopteraFamily - MantidaeGenus - StagomantisSpecies -
carolina

     What is a Praying Mantis?

 

tax‧on‧o‧my  /tÊkˈsɒnəmi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled
Pronunciation[tak-son-uh-mee] Pronunciation Key -
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ñnoun

1.the science or technique of classification.

2.Biology. the science dealing with the description, identification, naming,
and classification of organisms.

lex‧i‧con  /ˈlɛksɪˌkɒn, -kən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled
Pronunciation[lek-si-kon, -kuhn]
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Cool Firefox Extension

September 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

I am still using Manila as my blog software for now. I want to shift to Wordpress. I don’t want to loose all of my 10,000 entries over the last 6 years. So that’s going to take some time to resolve.
In the mean time, I found this cool Firefox extension that lets me stay inside [...]

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New blogging procedures

September 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

As I have been documenting over the last few weeks. There are some very cool new blogging tools coming out. So, here is how I work now.
Read RSS feeds using Onfolio. Onfolio is now free, it is by far the best aggregator/research tool I have ever seen or used. It runs on both FireFox and [...]

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List of “ates”

September 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Abate
Abdicate
Ablate
Ablegate
Abnegate
Abrogate
Acaudate
Accurate
Acerate
Acerbate
Acervate
Acetate
Acierate
Acrylate
Activate
Actuate
Acuate
Aculeate
Acylate
Adequate
Adnate
Adulate
Aduncate
Advocate
Aerate
Agate
Agitate
Agminate
[...]

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