tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 31 21:20:35 2000
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Re: loSpev (was Re: Klingon WOTD: tIr (n))
ja' Voragh:
>Related vocabulary includes the nouns {loSpev} "quadrotriticale" (a type of
>four-lobed wheat)...
ghunchu'wI':
: Apparently, anyone visiting Space Station K-7 -- with the prominent
: exception of Captain Kirk -- recognized quadrotriticale as *not* being
: wheat. :)
And me, apparently! I stand corrected.
: Wheat is a grain in the genus Triticum. Rye is a grain in the genus
: Secale. There is a 20th Century real-world hybrid of the two, known as
: triticale, found in Canada. In the 23rd Century word of Star Trek,
: quadrotriticale is a four-lobed rehybridization of that parent grain.
... developed in Russia IIRC (at least according to Ens. Chekhov).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons