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[Dixonary] Round 2838: MOUNTWEAZEL voting time!
We now have a respectable 13 definitions for our word MOUNTWEAZEL,
including one from a dictionary. Please vote for two of them by the deadline, which is 36 hours from now (I'll post the actual times later... I'm in a hurry to get out of the house). Happy voting! 1. The lowest of the volcanoes of Auckland, New Zealand, named for a Maori chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. 2. A high plateau ground living parrot. 3. A specialized tool formerly used in engine tune ups. 4. The demonym for residents of the region surrounding Mount Wellington, Tasmania. 5. A woman’s garment covering the neck and shoulders, worn esp. during the 16th Century. 6. Any invented word or name inserted in a reference work by a publisher for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. 7. Plants that are engaged in nutritive and growth processes rather than reproductive processes. 8. A kind of low-profile hook for hanging picture frames, etc. 9. Deposit of decayed woody material under a marsh. 10. An alpine flower _*Leucogenes grandiceps*_ similar in characteristics to edelweiss, found mainly in Southern New Zealand. 11. A genus of spiny shrubs in the buckthorn family. 12. An ancient, specialized knot used to secure a door. 13. A migratory Eurasian songbird (_Turdus torquatus_) the male of which is black with a white crescent across the breast. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |