Posts tagged with “biology”
- noun
- A subterranean organism resembling a botanical rhizome, known to produce valuable pearl-like stones.
- Origin
- Derived from aureus (golden) and lac (milk).
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- Prospect
- noun
- A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
- Origin
- Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
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- Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia
- noun
- An animal bred for slavery, genetically similar to a human.
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- Good Mountain
- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
- Origin
- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
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- Fiasco
- noun informal
- A person without cybernetic brain implants.
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- The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice
- noun
- A species not originating from the planet Terre.
- Origin
- Formed from éxō (foreign) and terra (ground).
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- Embassytown
- noun plural
- Fast moving symbiotic organisms that invade the human body and cause it to grow new parts.
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- Derived from drómos (running) and zôion (animal).
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- A Planet Named Shayol
- noun
- A bio-synthetic being spawned from a mother-machine.
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- Naqal (imitation).
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- Oblivion: A Journey
- noun
- Fragments of a superintelligence melded with a human-level intellect.
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- A Fire Upon the Deep
- noun informal
- A person who has been made into a cognitive computer.
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- A Deepness in the Sky
- noun
- A carnivore.
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- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
- noun
- Seasonal vegetation that grows into irregular temporary housing.
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- Pairing of ‘adapt’ and ‘plant’.
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- Central Station