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Ever wonder why we're not just happy, we're happy as a clam? | |||||||||
Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 10, 2008homologous \huh-MOL-uh-guhs; hoh-\, adjective: 1. corresponding in position, proportion, structure, value, or other property A human hand, a bird's wing and a whale's flipper are all homologous structures, she explains, in that each represents an evolutionary modification of the same ancestral limb structure. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. by 1660, from Greek homologos "agreeing, of one mind," from homos "same" + logos "relation, reasoning, computation," related to legein "reckon, select, speak" | |||||||||
Ever wonder why we're not just happy, we're happy as a clam? | |||||||||
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