# Names, animals and meanings (V) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Aug 1998* > 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. --- ### mary whalen *03 Aug 1998, 21:24* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Villus. Latin for shaggy hair. Small threadlike biological extensions on some organs of animals. Boy at the palaestra. Violet. Any plant of genus Viola, usually with a reddish blue hue lighter than purple. Prostitute at Orchid's. Vulpes. Latin for fox. The genus of animals including the fox. A crafty lawyer from Limna. prion ---