Definitions
callosities
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- wartlike bumps on the heads of right whales that appear white due to whale lice, or cyamids, that attach to the callosities
- these are unique for each individual and facilitate identification of whales
commensal
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- one who eats at the same table
- an organism, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food
- pertaining to or designating those who habitually eat together
endemic
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- limited to a particular geographic region
epiphytic
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- growing on another plant, but not deriving nutrition from it
sight¹
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- perception of objects by the eye
- that which is seen, as in these sights
- an aid to seeing as in a device to guide the eye in aiming a firearm or other instrument
- an aim or observation taken by means of a sight or sights
- a straight, uninterrupted stretch, as of a road or a river
- in a drawing, picture, etc, that part of the surface which is within the fram or the border or margin; in a frame or the like, the opening
- a great number, quantity or sum
site¹
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- the place where anything is, or is to be; as in a web site
- posture or position
Footnote 1
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- These two words are listed here because my primary grammatical pet peve is when sight and site are used interchangably and incorrectly.
This is an increasingly common error, especially on the internet and also spreading into other media and everyday use.
- (My wife's main grammatical peve is the all too common superfluous and incorrect use of the apostrophe.
Such as when an 's is added to a word to make it plural when only an s is needed, in contrast with the correct use in the previous sentence to designate possesive tense.)
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