new word: I'll tell you later!
Mark Jason Dominus
mjd at plover.com
Thu Aug 25 14:13:19 EDT 2005
> Several people knew that the word "nummular" means "coinlike,"
> specifically referring to coin-shaped blisters or rashes on the skin.
There's a Stephen Jay Gould essay about an early-20th-century
naturalist who wrote a book about the "nummulosphere", about how the
entire earth was composed of the skeletons of nummulites, tiny
extinct coin-shaped animals.
Also, the word is realted to "numismatics", the study of coins.
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