This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is corniculate or corniculated: shaped like a small horn; from the Latin, corniculum, “little horn”, dim. of cornu.
In botany, a flower with a sharp-pointed appendage, resembling, in some degree, a cock’s spur.
Dandelion:
This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is cordate: heart-shaped; from the Latin, cordis, cordatus.
The leaf of the common blue violet:
https://apps.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/weed/broadleaf/basal/blueviolet.html
A pitcher with a cordate handle:
This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is claviform or clavate: club shaped; from the Latin, clava.
Clavate: Widened at the distal end, like a baseball bat or club.
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/glossary/c/
Clavigerous: bearing a club (clava) or key (clavis).
This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is campanulate: bell shaped; from the Latin, campanula.
Campanulate flower:
This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is botuliform: sausage shaped; long, cylindrical, hollow, incurved at each end; from the Latin, botulus. A sausage maker or dealer was called a botularius.
Botulinum toxin, or botulinum neurotoxin (Commonly called botox), is a highly potent neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species. It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings at the neuromuscular junction, thus causing flaccid paralysis. The toxin causes the disease botulism. The toxin is also used commercially for medical and cosmetic purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin
The English word, pudding, may have come the L. botulus, through Ital. bodello, through Fr. boudin.
This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is aspergilliform: brush shaped; from the Latin, aspergillum: shaped like a brush.
An aspergillum (“little sprinkler”, less commonly, aspergilium or aspergil) is a Christian liturgical implement used to sprinkle holy water. It comes in three forms: a freshly cut hyssop branch, a brush-like bundle that is dipped in the holy water and shaken, and a perforated, mace-like metal ball with a handle. Some have sponges or internal reservoirs that dispense holy water when shaken, while others must periodically be dipped in an aspersorium (holy water bucket, known to art historians as a situla). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillum
Aspergillus is a genus consisting of several hundred mould species found in various climates worldwide.
Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli. Viewing the fungi under a microscope, Micheli was reminded of the shape of an aspergillum (holy water sprinkler), from Latin spargere (to sprinkle), and named the genus accordingly. Aspergillum is an asexual spore-forming structure common to all Aspergillus species; around one-third of species are also known to have a sexual stage. While some species of Aspergillus are known to cause fungal infections, others are of commercial importance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/aspergillosis/causes.html
This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is acerose: Needle-shaped, like leaves of a fir; from the Latin, acerosus: a pointed thing.
[https://www.pickpik.com/nordmann-fir-fir-christmas-branch-christmas-tree-decoration-108870]
In the June 5, 2018 illustration auction at Swann Auction Galleries, there is an original pen and ink illustration by Charles Dana Gibson, (1867-1944), from Life magazine:
It appeared in the September 23, 1897 issue, page 247, for a story by Louis Evan Shipman, As Told by the Girl. / In Three Conversations (1.) under the caption,”‘Yes, That’s Just it,’ she answered.” There were two later installments illustrated by different illustrators
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2577385;view=1up;seq=258
Shipman turned the stories into a book, Predicaments, which was published in 1899. This illustration appeared under the caption, “Sally, I’m in love,” facing page 16.
There is an advertising illustration of a woman wearing a silk slip and washing her hair in a pool of water by John La Gatta (1894-1977) coming up for sale on June 5, 2018 at Swann Auction Galleries.
See this link to the National Museum of American Illustration for more information about the artist,
The illustration in the sale might have been done for Laros Lingerie c. 1940 for either a magazine ad or Laros catalog.
Below is an similar illustration by La Gatta for Laros:
In 1938, Laros come out with “Dimensional Slip” which was billed as the best fitting slip on the market:
This image comes from a history of the company:
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2018/01/how_you_can_help_chronicle_leh.html
Some very nice original postcard illustrations by Archie Gunn (1863-1930) are coming up for sale at Swann Auction Galleries’ June 5 illustration sale. They are lots 86 to 89.
See pulpartists.com for a good biography, https://www.pulpartists.com/Gunn.html>
Archie Gunn was a prolific illustrator. See CardCow for more examples:
https://www.cardcow.com/search3.php?section=unsold&in_category=&s=archie+gunn
The originals watercolors are followed by the postcard reproductions:
Miss Canada, also known as Miss Toronto
Miss Chicago
Bride of Niagara
Rolling Skating Girl
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