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A fleshy, swollen stem base, usually underground and functioning in the storage of food reserves, with buds naked or covered by very thin scales; a type of rootstock. cormel A small corm (or cormlet), forming at the base of a growing larger corm. [30] corneous Horny in texture; stiff and hard, but somewhat tough. Compare coriaceous. corolla
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old proverb that means without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. It is often shortened to "all work and no play". [ 1 ] It was newly popularized after the phrase was featured in the 1980 horror film, The Shining .
It was originally described as Armillariella novae-zelandiae by Greta Stevenson: "Pileus 3-8 cm diam., olive-buff to olive-brown, sprinkled at centre with very small dull brown scales, convex at first with a strongly down-rolled margin, becoming plane to shallow concave, moist when fresh with a conspicuously striate margin, drying matt; flesh creamy white.
According to William Shepard Walsh, "There is a faint anticipation in William Wycherley's Double Dealer, "and libels everybody with dull praise," but a closer parallel is in Phineas Fletcher: When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises, Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
A dull sound in response to percussion (medicine) Shifting dullness, a medical sign; In philosophy and religion. Tamas (philosophy), one of the three tendencies in ...
Thankfully, Toulouse is a very walkable city, and we mostly managed to get around on foot to take in the sights and visit friends. Next time we're in France with a car, though, we'll head elsewhere.
Seashell is an off-white color that resembles some of the very pale pinkish tones that are common in many seashells. The first recorded use of seashell as a color name in English was in 1926. [12] Seashell in the sand. In 1987, seashell was included as one of the X11 colors.
Dull (or earthy) minerals exhibit little to no lustre, due to coarse granulations which scatter light in all directions, approximating a Lambertian reflector. An example is kaolinite . [ 3 ] A distinction is sometimes drawn between dull minerals and earthy minerals, [ 4 ] with the latter being coarser, and having even less lustre.