Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
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| 100% | STIX | Something Timberlike Is Xyloid. |
Angela Brett, after discovering the word Xyloid (meaning woodlike or pertaining to wood) and thought that since it was a real X word and not an eX word then it ought to be included in an acronym just so there'd be another X that hadn't been cheated on... unfortunately she had to cheat on the acronym anyway to get an X into it. But hey, it explains the word nicely, doncha think? Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Science:Biology:Plants |