Make Your Fictionary Selections!

[hutch at bewellnet.com]

I notice that no one could make this word into anything but a noun.

Usual voting rules: Give 2 points to the one you think most likely, 1 point to the runner-up.

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masdevallia : n. 1) a treasure trove or cornucopia, a sort of Spanish potlatch 2) a semi-tropical viney plant with profuse pink to magenta to maroon blooms 3) a festival of giving away old household goods to new homes, so named for the flowery vines used to decorate the trays and baskets and carts of the participants

masdevallia : n. a large genus of tropical American orchids whose flowers have sepals fused at the base forming a tube; includes orchids sometimes placed in genera Dracula and Dryadella

masdevallia : n. a creamy Italian confection, flavored with almond extract

masdevallia : n. an exiled political leader with aspirations to return home in triumph and establish a semi-dictatorial Catholic Socialist regime; see Jorge Mas Canosa and Eamon de Valera

masdevallia : n. a large, flightless snail (Achatina loricata) native to the Atlantic coast of Central America, prized for its ability to clear blocked pipes

masdevallia : n. a repetitious dream about waking

masdevallia : n. a dance popular in Provence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in which young men and women exchanged handkerchiefs scented with their sweat

masdevallia : n. a flowering herb native to central and southern Europe

masdevallia : n. items left in the suitcase after a voyage

masdevallia : n. (Obs.) 1) any prosthetic device worn on the face or head 2) dentures

masdevallia : n. foodstuffs used for religious purposes, e.g. wafers consumed during the Catholic rite of communion

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Good luck!

BB,
Hutch