{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/501", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "whorl", "thread": { "id": 501, "subject": "Names, animals, and meanings (G)", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "1998-07-29T10:36:06+00:00", "last": "1998-07-29T23:11:50+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "mary whalen", "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com" }, "date": "1998-07-29T10:36:06+00:00", "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals, and meanings (G)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nGalago. Any species in the Galago genus of the Lorisidae family ,\nespecially Lorisidae Galago senegalensis, also called the lesser bush\nbaby. It's related to monkeys. Its body is only about half a foot\nlong, and it has a long furry tail. It has mouse-like ears and big\neyes that make it look like it's always scared. Very agile in the\ntrees. Galago is related to Loris. This name is probably not\ncomplementary.\n\nGaur. Bibos gaurus or Bos gaurus. An ox from India. Possibly the\nwild variety of the gayal (Bibos frontalis or Bos frontalis). Big\nwith large shoulders. Gaur was a criminal in Urus' group in the tunnels.\n\nGayfeather. Liatris pycnostachya. An herb with purple flowers. A\ngirl at the palaestra.\n\nGecko. Also gecco. Any species of family Gekkonidae (or Gecconidae).\n Most are nocturnal. Large eyes, large toes with suckers used for\nclimbing or sticking. Sticky tongue. Feed on insects. One of\nOosik's officers.\n\nGelada. From Arabic quilaada (mane, collar). Theropithecus gelada. \nClosely related to baboons and mandrills. Looks like a hairy baboon\nwith a mane of long hair on the back and side of the head of the\nmales. Males have bare patches of red skin which they show and expand\nto look like a threat. A criminal in Urus' group in the tunnels. \nUrus told Auk that he was the leader of the group, and Auk killed him.\n\nGib. A male cat, a castrated male cat, a hook that a male salmon\ngrows on its lower jaw during or after its mating season, the gib fish\n(the salmon, any species of genus Salmo). Also short for gibaro (also\njibaro), a Puerto Rican worker or a verb meaning to gut a fish (also\ngip) or a verb meaning to oppose, balk, refuse, hesitate (also jib). \nIt could also be short for gibbon. Gib is the large bouncer at the\nCock who Auk saves. He buys Bongo the baboon. Many of these meanings\ncould apply to him.\n\nGinger. Any species of genus Zingiber, especially Zingiber\nofficinale, which contains the spice called ginger. The spice is\nfragrant and used as a stimulant. A girl at the palaestra.\n\nGoldcrest. The golden-crested kinglet, or the golden-crowned kinglet,\nor the golden-crested wren. Any species of kinglet with a bright\nyellow patch on the head (genus Regulus). Also, possibly the golden\ncrest, a yellow-flowered bog herb (Lophiola americana) or golden\ncrown, a South American grass (Paspalum dilatatum). Described as a\nclassmate of Nettle's, but I don't remember if Goldcrest is male or\nfemale.\n\nGoral. Also gooral. The word is derived from gaur. Any species of\ngenus Naemorhaedus (or Nemorhaedus, or Naemorhedus, or Nemorhedus),\nespecially Naemorhaedus goral, the common goral. The common goral is\nabout four feet long, live in grassy hills near forests in the\nmountains. Related to the mountain goat. Former hostler who joins\nwith Mint.\n\nGrian. Irish for sun or gravel or bottom or ground or land or earth\nor surface. The flyer who escapes the Trivigauntis (you can't catch\nthe sun).\n\nGuan. Any species of family Cracidae. Tropical turkey-like birds. \nThe males make a \"whirring\" sound with their wings for a mating\ndisplay. One of Spider's subordinates who was killed in the tunnels.\n\nGulo. Latin for glutton, epicure; from Latin gula (gullet, throat). \nGulo is the genus of the wolverine (Gulo gulo) and the glutton. \nPatera Gulo is a little well-fed.\n\nprion" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William H. Ansley", "address": "wansley at warwick.net" }, "date": "1998-07-29T23:11:50+00:00", "subject": "Re: (whorl) Names, animals, and meanings (G)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Gecko. Also gecco. Any species of family Gekkonidae (or Gecconidae).\nMost are nocturnal. Large eyes, large toes with suckers used for\nclimbing or sticking. Sticky tongue. Feed on insects. One of\nOosik's officers." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Not that this matters, but no geckos (that I know of) have sticky tongues.\nThey catch insects by staying very still and then lunging very quickly when\nan insect comes within reach, like most lizards. I should know; I used to\nkeep geckos as pets.\n\nWilliam Ansley" } ] } ] }