Recently, Dictionary Com provided a list of 300 words added to the dictionary for 2024. Today's blog includes a sampling of them from Stellar Nursery to dendroglyph. Here's today's sampling.
There’s A Word For That: Our Dictionary Additions For Winter 2024stellar nursery noun. Astronomy. a molecular cloud in which new stars are being formed.
📝 The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of these star-forming regions, including the one pictured below, named 30 Doradus and nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula.
Located in the neighboring galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, it is the largest and brightest stellar nursery in the Local Group, a group of galaxies near the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
boring billion noun. a period in the earth's development occurring between 1,800 and 800 million years ago that is characterized by relative geological and climatic stability, slow evolutionary development, and low levels of atmospheric oxygen.
geoglyph noun. a large-scale design or pattern on the surface of the land made by arranging stones, rocks, or earth, or by removing ground cover to expose the rock or soil beneath.
📝 Geoglyph is the most well-known of the terms listed here ending in -glyph, which comes from the Greek word for “a carving”; geo- means “earth.”
ammoglyph noun. a pattern or design originally created in sand by early humans and now fossilized.
📝 Coined in 2019 by Canadian geologist Charles William Helm and colleagues based on the Greek ámmo(s), meaning “sand.”
dendroglyph noun. an image, message, or symbol carved into a tree, especially by Indigenous people and often hundreds of years old, providing cultural and historical information not available from other sources.
📝 Coined in 1918 by Australian curator Robert Etheridge, Jr., with the combining form dendro-, meaning “tree." Its use has replaced that of the earlier term arborglyph.
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