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Vera Velociraptor's
Very Vast, Verbose, Voracious Vocabularytm
Word of The Week.
The 7V-WOW

Students? Are you paying attention with your auditory and ocular apparatus?
These words are indubitably indispensible.
Make sure they are manifest in your mental matter. There will be a test.

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December 1, 1998
 

Quadruped (say kwad-roo - ped) An animal with four legs and four feet. One foot goes on the end of each leg.

sternum. (say stir-num) The bone that holds an animal's chest up. The so-called "breastbone."(It has nothing to do with being strict or stern. Um..Don't be confused. .Vera)

June 1, 1998

carnivore. An animal that eats meat not cars. (Goats, students, have been called "can" ivores, not carnivores. Don't be confused. .Vera)

herbivore. An animal that only eats plants. (No, students. They don't just eat basil and oregano.Vera)

A

aficionados - (say uh-fish-she-uh- nah-does) - a long word meaning "fan" which is a short word for fanatic. It is someone who likes something a lot, but still does their homework, gets good grades and still has time for comic books, Nintendo and knitting.. Like me, Vera

bipedal - (say bi peed ul) It has nothing to do with pedals. Not bicycle, students. That means two wheels. This means two legs. Just like you and me.

C

carnivore. An animal that eats meat not cars. (Goats, students, have been called "can" ivores, not carnivores. Don't be confused. .Vera)

herbivore. An animal that only eats plants. (No, students. They don't just eat basil and oregano.Vera)

K

"keeled" breast bone - It looks like a chicken's breast bone.

 
O.C. Marsh - An important early dino digger who feuded with competing dino digger Cope.

 
Phylogenetically - (SAY FIE lo jen ET ick a lee) - The way that a species of plant or animal evolves.

phylogeny - (say fy laj eh nee) the evolution or history of a group of animals that are related. Nothing to do with "Fee Phy Fo Fum."
 

S

sternum. (say stir-num) The bone that holds an animal's chest up. The so-called "breastbone."(It has nothing to do with being strict or stern. Um..Don't be confused. .Vera)

systemicist. - A person who studies how plants and animals relate to one another.

 
Vertebrates - Animals with backbones.

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