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Brzeczyszczykiewicz wrote: daddy longlegs - Any of various animals with long slender legs, such as crane flies and harvestmen.
Linguaphile wrote:And cellar spiders
Linguaphile wrote: and vibrates in its web when nervous
Linguaphile wrote:We call crane flies "mosquito hawks" or "mayflies", by the way.
Naava wrote:Linguaphile wrote:And cellar spiders
What the fuck was that thing and why does it have to exist??? And why do its legs need to be so long??! I've only ever seen harvestmen and I swear they're cute compared to what ever that horrible creature lurking behind the link was! That's proper nightmare material right there!
Naava wrote:Linguaphile wrote: and vibrates in its web when nervous
It... vibrates...?
Lutrinae wrote:This one is so tricky, in English can mangrove refers to both the trees/shrubs and the place where they grow?
linguoboy wrote:Those were two of the first Latvian words I learned, too!
linguoboy wrote:Lutrinae wrote:This one is so tricky, in English can mangrove refers to both the trees/shrubs and the place where they grow?
I've never heard that usage and the AHD and the M-W don't recognise it.
linguoboy wrote:Lutrinae wrote:This one is so tricky, in English can mangrove refers to both the trees/shrubs and the place where they grow?
I've never heard that usage and the AHD and the M-W don't recognise it.
Lexico.com wrote:1. A tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are flooded at high tide. Mangroves typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets.
1.1 A tidal swamp that is dominated by mangroves and associated vegetation.
Wiktionary wrote:1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water.
2. A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp.
3. Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
4. Trees of the genus Rhizophora.
Florida Museum wrote:The term “mangrove” does not refer to a specific taxonomic group of species, but to all halophytic (plants growing in saline soils) species of tropical trees and shrubs. This catchall, diverse group includes 12 families and more than 50 species. Although unrelated, all are adapted to life in wet soils, saline habitats, and periodic tidal submergence.
Another use of the term “mangrove” includes the entire plant community including the individual mangrove species. Terms such as tidal forest, tidal swamp forest, mangrove community, mangrove forest, mangal, and mangrove swamp are synonymous with “mangrove”.
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