[Fictionary] mahonia ballot - at long last

[Fran Poodry]

My apologies for being very far behind schedule. Here is the ballot. Please
do the traditional thing of one 1-pt vote and one 2-pt vote. Voting
deadline...say Friday August 25, evening.


mahonia, n. A red-brown wood from the tree of the same name found in the
jungles of South and Central America.


mahonia, n. A hollow doll which opens to reveal a slightly larger mahonia.


mahonia, n. A Colombian orchid with a white flower shaped liked a trumpet.
Discovered by Francis James Mahoney, S. J.


mahonia, n.  Publications written outside the field for which a scholar is
best known.


mahonia, n. Any of various evergreen shrubs belonging to the genus Mahonia,
of the barberry family, including the Oregon grape. Named after Bernard
McMahon (1775-1816), U.S. botanist.


mahonia, n. The feeling that if we don't find the next whiskey bar, I tell
you we must die.


mahonia, n. An African cichlid of the genus Mahonia, which, unlike other
cichlids, can distinguish eggs of catfish of the genus Synodontis from its
own, thus avoiding brood parasitism.


mahonia, n. A condition in which a patient has an inability to communicate,
but does not understand that to be the case.


-- 
*Fran Poodry*
*Oregon, USA*



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