ephedra
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rə, ˈɛf noun
any of various plants of the genus Ephedra, growing in dry regions and having branching stems with dry scalelike leaves.
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| any gymnosperm shrub of the genus Ephedra, of warm regions of America and Eurasia: the source of ephedrine: family Ephedraceae, phylum Gnetophyta | |
| [C18: New Latin, from Latin, from Greek ephedros a sitting upon, from | |
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Ephedra
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Word Origin & History
ephedra
1917, from Mod.L., coined by Linnæus (1737) from Gk. ephedra, lit. "sitting upon," from fem. of ephedros, from epi "on" + hedra "seat, base, chair, face of a geometric solid," from PIE base *sed- "to sit" (see sedentary).
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Ephedra is practically a molecular twin to methamphetamine, or speed.
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