Saussure

[ French soh-syr ]

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noun

Saussure

/ sosyr /

SaussureFerdinand de18571913MSwissLANGUAGE: linguistWRITING: structuralist Ferdinand de (fɛrdinɑ̃ də). 1857–1913, Swiss linguist. He pioneered structuralism in linguistics and the separation of scientific language description from historical philological studies

Saussure made similar experiments, and observed that the quantity of water exhaled by a sunflower amounted to about 220 lb.

Saussure has also observed that the quantity of ash diminishes in certain plants when the seed has ripened.

A substance noticed by Saussure in starch-paste, when long kept.

De Saussure suffered considerably, and a raging thirst added to his discomfort.

Here, as in a hundred other places, I sought in the fog for the vesicles of De Saussure, but failed to find them.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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