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A social butterfly is a slang term for a person who is socially dynamic, successful at networking, charismatic, and personally gregarious.Usually, social butterflies don’t belong to a particular group, but rather jump from one group to another.
Usually living in harsh or limiting environments, these mole-rats aid in raising siblings and relatives born to a single reproductive queen. However, this classification is controversial owing to disputed definitions of 'eusociality'. To avoid inbreeding, mole rats sometimes outbreed and establish new colonies when resources are sufficient. [42]
See Wilson (1971) [9] for definitions and further sub-classes of varieties of subsociality. Choe & Crespi (1997) [11] and Costa (2006) [12] give readable overviews. Subsociality is widely distributed among the winged insects, and has evolved independently many times.
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 ...
Idiosyncrasy is sometimes used as a synonym for eccentricity, as these terms "are not always clearly distinguished when they denote an act, a practice, or a characteristic that impresses the observer as strange or singular."
After the book's publication in 1894, the word "svengali" has come to refer to a person who, with evil intent, dominates, manipulates and controls another.In court, the "Svengali defence" is a legal tactic that portrays the defendant as a pawn in the scheme of a greater, and more influential, criminal mastermind.
Synonyms; Otis tetrax Linnaeus, 1758. The little bustard (Tetrax tetrax) is a bird in the bustard family, ... It is gregarious, especially in winter.