Gareth Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] spaekth thusly:
I like your laid-back style in narratives. But please let us all in on
exactly what it is you eat/drink/smoke/sniff before writing your informative
submissions to this digest or your ebay offerings.
Do you have any idea what
Good luck Floridians and other gulf coast folks!
Downloaded the hurricane tracking widget for my Mac yesterday. Here
we go again!
Got to get Stearn's book. Very interesting discussions here as of late!
Thanks!
(Aaron Hicks - you crack me up!)
~Heather - off to join my local society today.
Page 366 of my Stearns (fourth edition 1998)
mentions albens-whitened; albescens- becoming white, whitish; albidus- somewhat
white, whitish; albus- white, particularly a dull rather than a glossy white. A
smaller Collins publication mentions albus=white, bright. An English to French
free
story :
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050709/NEWS0102/507090341/1002/NEWS01
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In an article, J.A. Savin, wrote, quoting Francis Galton :
albino orchids ... 'rarely if ever produce albino offspring'
(J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2002; 32, page 208)
Does this assertion remains true, nowadays ?
For his part, Kenneth S. Wilson wrote :
the term ALBINO... It is a word
Do you consider that the flowers depicted in the following photos are
correctly identified (using the terms albina / albino) :
1) Ophrys bertolonii albina :
http://www.exuviaphoto.it/Galleria/fiori_e_piante/Albina.jpg
2) http://www.ne.jp/asahi/orchid/sophronitis/C._guttata_albina2.JPG
3) C.
Kenneth,
the point was that the word Albino (against my expectations) is
neither listed by Stearn (2nd edition ... can't afford a new one ;-) )
nor in the Latin dictionaries that I have.
Iris,
I have no idea what an albino Mandrill would possibly look like
regards
Guido
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Prof. Dr.
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