tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 27 09:46:18 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: loSpev (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, December 23, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: loSpev
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: quadrotriticale
Never used in a Klingon sentence.
In the 23rd century, quadrotriticale is a four-lobed rehybridization of
that parent grain, developed in Russia according to Chekhov. Tribbles will
gorge themselves on quadrotriticale. (TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles" and
DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations") Wheat is a grain in the genus Triticum
and rye is a grain in the genus Secale. I'm told that there's a 20th
century real-world hybrid of the two, known as triticale, found in Canada.
Related nouns: {tIr} "grain" and {Satlh} "agriculture".
Related verbs: {poch} "plant" and {yob} "harvest".
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons