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The kraken (/ ˈ k r ɑː k ən /, from Norwegian: kraken, "the crookie") [6] [7] is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
This has been suggested to be derived from another junior synonym of the Irish elk described by J. Hart in 1825, Cervus megaceros. [2] Despite being a junior synonym, Megaloceros remained in obscurity and Megaceros became the common genus name for the taxon. [15] The combination "Megaceros giganteus" was in use by 1871. [17]
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters.A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1]
Enormous may refer to: Enormous (band), an indie, power pop band from Derby, England. Enormous (song), a 2017 song by American rapper Gucci Mane.
The Great Wall of China, at 6,352 km or 3,947 mi long, is a megastructure.This picture was taken near Beijing in February 2005. A megastructure is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably.
[3] [22] Though the genus name Indricotherium is now a junior synonym of Paraceratherium, the subfamily name Indricotheriinae is still in use because genus name synonymy does not affect the names of higher level taxa that are derived from these. Members of the subfamily are therefore still commonly referred to as indricotheres.