Biology Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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fairy ring n. Everyone who is accustomed to the country knows a “fairy ring” when he sees it. Each ring is only a belt of grass of a much darker green than that surrounding it.…If the grass of these “fairy rings” be examined in the Spring and early Summer, it will be found to conceal a number of agarics or “toadstools.” [English Biology Environment] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

fairy ring n. Some sediment dweller has built its mound hard against a nodule. And on the left is a “fairy ring” of unknown origin that seems to be slipping and perhaps rolling nodules into its moat. [English Biology Environment] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

farmer blow n. Other wintertime athletes, however, are devoted to another form of nose maintenance known variously as the farmer blow, the snot rocket or snagging. Here’s how: Press your finger on one side of the nose, blocking off a nostril, and blow forcefully out the other nostril. Repeat on the opposite side. Done correctly, you expel viscous booger wads harmlessly into the air and out onto the trail. [English Biology Body Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 4, 2006)

farmer blow n. “I was in 4-H and FFA, a total farm girl. That helped in the Army, kind of a roughneck thing,” she says and launches into a description about a friend in her military unit, “the prissiest thing you’d ever want to see.” “I taught her how to spit, do the farmer blow,” she says and mimics blowing her nose with her fingers. [English Biology Body Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 4, 2006)

farmer blow n. My hubby has even taught Matthew the “Farmer Blow” that only Men seem to have enough back pressure to do—YUK! [English Biology Body Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 4, 2006)

farmer’s blow n. He it a couple of times, blowing it out with the “farmer’s blow” method several times before I tried it myself. *enter foolish act here* I stuck the peanut not half way up my nose, but ALL the way up my nose.…I pushed, pulled, and tried to “farmer blow” it out, but I just couldn’t. [English Biology Body Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 4, 2006)

flashbulb memory n. The theory of “flashbulb memories” holds that shocking events—such as a presidential assassination—are created in a unique process that sears an image into the brain like a photo. [English Biology] [full cite] (Dec. 20, 2006)

flish n. In 200 million years, evolution brings bizarre animals like “flish,” birds that evolved from fish; “bumblebeetles,” beetles that fly; and “megasquid,” multi-ton, land-based squid creatures. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology] [full cite] (May. 4, 2005)

frozen zoo n. During her eight years of service, she has advanced from washing lab slides to keeping the computerized inventory of what is sometimes called the “frozen zoo.” That includes thousands of animal sperm and unfertilized egg samples kept frozen in vials until they are used to help reproduce various endangered species [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology] [full cite] (Nov. 9, 2006)

futant n. “You’d be like a creature. If you have 48 chromosomes, (you’re) a futant. That’s what we call our friends. Futants.” (Psychedelic psychologist Timothy Leary allegedly coined the term, combining “future” and “mutant.”) [English Biology] [full cite] (Jan. 14, 2006)

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