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  "thread": {
    "id": 496,
    "subject": "Names, animals, and meanings (C)",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-07-28T16:27:31+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-28T16:27:31+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0679@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-28T16:27:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals, and meanings (C)",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nCassava.  One of the species of the genus Manihot.  Roots used to make\ntapioca.  An old woman on Sun Street.\n\nCavy.  A species in the family Caviidae, especially the cavy (Cavia\ntschudii).  Large South American rodents.  Live in burrows.  Most look\nlike large guinea pigs crossed with a rabbit with a longer face.  Also\nthe name for a herd of work horses (or a cavvy).  A boy in Silk's\npalaestra.\n\nChamomile.  A plant of genus Anthemis (especially Anthemis nobilis) or\nMatricaria (especially Matricaria chamomilla) or the oil or perfume\nmade of those plants' flowers.  An assistant at the Talus factory.\n\nChenille.  French for caterpillar, from Latin canicula (little dog),\nfrom canis (dog).  A yarn of wool, cotton, or silk; which is named\nchenille because of it's resemblance to the thread by which a\ncaterpillar hangs.  The chenille plant (Acalypha hispida) from East\nIndia, which has spikes of crimson flowers that look like chenille\n(the fabric).  The chenille weed, a red alga (Rhodomelaceae Dasya\nelegans) found on the western coast of the North Atlantic.  This name\nrelates her to Tussah, and thus to Silk.  It also connects her to the\nchenille plant (called burning cattail), causing the confusion about\nthe device on her knife.\n\nChervil.  Anthriscus cerefolium.  Also called beaked parsley.  A\nsweet-smelling herb which has leaves used in soups and salads.  Wife\nof Coypu.\n\nChiquito.  Spanish for little boy.  Also an indigenous tribe in\nBolivia.  The name of the parrot owned by Mamelta's parents (which is\nwhy he doesn't have an animal name, he's not Vironese).\n\nCivet.  Any of the many species of the family Viverridae, including\nthe civet cat (Civettictis civetta), a two to three foot long mammal\nwith a thin body and long thin tail.  Fox-like heas.  The family also\nincludes linsangs, genets, meerkats, and mongooses.  Also the pelt of\nany of these animals, or a thick, fat, oily, musky, smelly, clear\nbrown or yellow bodily substance found in the pouch near the penis of\nthe civet cat, used in perfumes.  The officer whose soldiers killed\nCrane while trying to rescue silk.\n\nCoypu.  Also spelled coypou.  Myocastor coypus, a South American\ntwo-foot-long aquatic diving rodent with webbed feat.  Looks like a\nbeaver with a long rat tail.  Bred for their fur, but many have\nescaped and are now considered pests in many areas of the world.  Also\ncalled nutria.  The husband of Chervil.\n\nCrane.  A species of the family Gruidae.  Tall wading birds that look\nlike herons.  Alias used by Sigada while working as a spy in Viron.\n\nprion"
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