actinula

Actinula

Ac*tin"u*la\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a ray.] (Zo["o]l.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
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Actinula is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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