A linguistic challenge
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luzulaGuess (without searching the web) the scientific subject whence these specialist phrases come: "subgynoecial innovation" and "succubously inserted".
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Date: 2015-02-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-02-07 09:06 am (UTC)The phrases are from my copy of Illustrated Nordic Flora of Liverworts and Hornworts. So, moss morphology, basically. If that book has a choice between a perfectly good ordinary word and a technical one, it goes for the technical one everytime. *sigh*