sanguivorous
Jan. 25th, 2022 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordIn honor of Burns Night ... or something like that:
sanguivorous (sang-GWIV-er-uhs) - adj., feeding on blood.
As in some insects and some bats. See also bloodsucking and hematophagous. Coined in the mid-1800s from Latin roots sanguis, blood (specifically, blood inside the body -- outside the body, it's cruor) and -vorous, devouring.
Okay, fine, so there really isn't any Robert Burns connection. But it is Burns Night tonight, so here's an Address to a Scotch Haggis on New-Year's Day for you.
---L.
sanguivorous (sang-GWIV-er-uhs) - adj., feeding on blood.
As in some insects and some bats. See also bloodsucking and hematophagous. Coined in the mid-1800s from Latin roots sanguis, blood (specifically, blood inside the body -- outside the body, it's cruor) and -vorous, devouring.
Okay, fine, so there really isn't any Robert Burns connection. But it is Burns Night tonight, so here's an Address to a Scotch Haggis on New-Year's Day for you.
---L.
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Date: 2022-01-25 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-25 06:20 pm (UTC)I'm not feeling sanguine about changing that meaning ...