Shirley Chisholm, Helen Keller, Goliath/David

 

 

Shirley Chisholm, Helen Keller, Goliath/David 

And stuff.

2015, created in Klickitat County 

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Leaf

Plural

Squint

Chisholm trail

Floccule

Poise

Sock

Metaphysician

Baritone

Connect

Lyddite. Tungsten. Microelectronics.

Eardrum

Turtle

Dentist

Fail

Peck

Thistle

Daffy

Facient

Isogloss

Refractory

Tweedledee Tweedledum

Guidon

Meadow rue

Osculant

Hebrew

Steep

Flask

Humidity

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*Word math equation*

For the illustriously daffy.

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floccule

something resembling a small flock or tuft of wool.   

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A guidon is a small, forked flag, or "swallow-tailed" flag, that is used to identify a military unit. 

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From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”) 

See osculate.

Adjective

osculant 

Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging. 

(zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars. 

(biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.

The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera. 

(Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change. 

(geometry) Tangent, touching at a single point. 

osculant (plural osculants) noun

(geometry) The point at which two tangent curves touch. 

(algebra) The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.