Cool. A new music-related word!
phillumenist \fi-LOO-muh-nist\ - one who collects matchbooks or matchbox labels
The "lumen" in the middle helped me get this one right in today's Dictionary Devil puzzle.
honeycreeper \HUH-nee-'kree-per\ - 1. any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds (especially genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes of the family Coerebidae) of tropical America 2. any of a family (Drepanididae) of often colorful oscine birds found only in Hawaii
Also from today's DD. Hmm. I might have to be on the lookout for these next week!
oscine \AH-syne\ - of or relating to a large suborder (Oscines) of passerine birds (as larks, shrikes, finches, orioles, and crows) characterized by a vocal apparatus highly specialized for singing
It has been a long time since one new definition has led me to another new word . . .
passerine \PASS-er-'ryne\ - of or relating to the largest order (Passeriformes) of birds which includes over half of all living birds and consists chiefly of altricial songbirds of perching habits — compare oscine
. . . and yet another, which also led me to back to a word I knew before, thought I had posted on previously but can't find on my blog, and still had to remind myself of:
altricial \al-TRIH-shuhl\ - being hatched or born or having young that are hatched or born in a very immature and helpless condition so as to require care for some time
I swear I remember looking this one up before, along with recognizing the contrasting "precocial," which is at least a close enough relative of "precocious" that I was finally able to stop this chain of lookups. Ah, what the heck:
precocial \prih-KO-shuhl\ - capable of a high degree of independent activity from birth
(Phew. Probably a personal record for words in one vocab post.)
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