"In Roman mythology, the lemures /ˈlɛmjəriːz/ were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae /ˈlɑrviː/ (from Latin larva, "mask") as disturbing or frightening"
regular sirocco streetwalker
---ergotamine hiss,
masectomy cist diagonal
history levee retrorocket
springhead eosin
management bell confederate gatecrasher
antioxidant doormat
lemures(spirits of the departed, ghosts
recriminate exanimate beechdrops
circular system logorrhea prism
electronegative pitchout windswept
exasperate catholic buck
earthy/ear trumpet
priggish verticil
napiform follicle brassica
genealogy inconsistent
cabinclass douglas spruce
finicky carcinogen
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note: an "automatic" or "dada" poem, "written" by random finger points in a dictionary
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Ergotamine is an ergopeptine and part of the ergot family of alkaloids; it is structurally and biochemically closely related to ergoline. It possesses structural similarity to several neurotransmitters, and has biological activity as a vasoconstrictor.
It is used medicinally for treatment of acute migraine attacks (sometimes in combination with caffeine)
The name Eosin comes from Eos, the Ancient Greek word for 'dawn' and the name of the Ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Eosin is a fluorescent red dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein. It can be used to stain cytoplasm, collagen and muscle fibers for examination under the microscope.
Sirocco, scirocco, /sɪˈrɒkoʊ/, jugo or, rarely, siroc (Catalan: Xaloc, Greek: Σορόκος, Spanish: Siroco) is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe.
verticil (plural verticils)
(chiefly botany) A whorl, a group of similar parts such as leaves radiating from a shared axis
napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)
(botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
exanimate (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.
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