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NEPHOGRAM
[noun]
photograph of a cloud; image of clouds.
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FESTIVE
[adjective]
1. pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival - a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances.
2. joyous; merry.
Etymology: Latin fēstīvus.
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ECLOSION
[noun]
1. Entomology: the emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case.
2. the hatching of a larva from its egg.
Etymology: French éclosion, equivalent to éclos (past participle of éclore - to hatch < Vulgar Latin *exclaudēre, for Latin exclūdēre - to hatch, exclude.
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INGÉNUE
[noun]
1. a stock character in literature, film, and a role type in the theatre; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. Ingenue may also refer to a new young actress or one typecast in such roles. The term comes from the French adjective ingénu meaning “ingenuous” or innocent, virtuous, and candid. The term may also imply a lack of sophistication and cunning.
2. an artless, innocent, or inexperienced girl or young woman; a naive maiden.
ALLURING
[adjective]
1. very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
2. fascinating; charming.
AURORA
[noun]
1. Roman mythology: the Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas (and possibly Germanic Ostara), Aurora continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos.
2. Fairytale: one of the most commonly used names for the princess in the fairytale, Sleeping Beauty. Other names include but are not limited to, Talia, Briar Rose and Rosebud.
3. Astronomy/Meteorology: (plural: aurorae or auroras) a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621. Its southern counterpart is the aurora australis (or the southern lights).
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