Loving this roundup of little-known words from Mental Floss’s John Green. Tons of strange terms and designations in this collection, from the scientific to the anatomical to the socio-cultural.
https://gizmodo.com/learn-odd-and-obscure-words-with-this-illustrated-alpha-5923286
Some highlights:
• Petrichor – that amazing rain smell
• Gam – the collective noun used to describe whales (but what do you call a group of whale sharks?)
• Caruncula – the small, triangular bump on the inside corner of each eye. (Not be confused with your plica semilunaris – what some believe to be a vestigial remnant of a third eyelid.)
https://gizmodo.com/what-really-causes-that-amazing-after-the-rain-smell-1167869568
https://gizmodo.com/fill-in-the-blank-a-gaggle-of-geese-a-pride-of-lions-471227973
https://gizmodo.com/10-vestigial-traits-you-didnt-know-you-had-5829687
[Via Mental Floss]
