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Re: Klingon WOTD: loSpev (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>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






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