[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.

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2. A high plateau ground living parrot.
13. A migratory Eurasian songbird (_Turdus torquatus_) the male of which is black with a white crescent across the breast.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

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I vote for 4 and 12.

Guerri
On 9/29/2017 5:37 PM, Shani Naylor wrote:
> 4.The demonym for residents of the region surrounding Mount
> Wellington, Tasmania.
> 12.An ancient, specialized knot used to secure a door.

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I'll try the demonym, in honour of my grandfather, who was born in
Tasmania, and the antipodean edelweiss, 4 and 10, please.

4. The demonym for residents of the region surrounding Mount
Wellington, Tasmania

10. An alpine flower _*Leucogenes grandiceps*_ similar in
characteristics to edelweiss, found mainly in Southern New Zealand.

-- Tim L

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I'll go for the obscure 3 and 12.


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6 and 11, please, assuming I'm not too late.


Best wishes,

Tim Bourne.

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I’ll go with the demonym and the knot.Â* 4 and 12.



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10 and 13.
Nancy

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6 & 7 please the voting territories in my brain.
Cheers
-Keith-

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If it isn't 6 there should be a word for that, so 6 gets one of my votes. The other goes to #10 because it sounds like it could be a flower and the NZ connection.

Efrem

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> On Sep 29, 2017, at 5:37 PM, Shani Naylor <shani.naylor (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> 6. Any invented word or name inserted in a reference work by a publisher for the purpose of detecting plagiarism.
>
> 10. An alpine flower _Leucogenes grandiceps_ similar in characteristics to edelweiss, found mainly in Southern New Zealand.
>
>

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I'll guess 5 and 11:

> 5.Â*Â*Â* A woman’s garment covering the neck and shoulders, worn esp. during the 16th Century.

> 11.Â*Â* A genus of spiny shrubs in the buckthorn family.



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