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epithalamium (sh) and bryozoan (iou)


epithalamium (sh)




or epithalamion

Nuptial song or poem in honour or praise of a bride and bridegroom.

In ancient Greece such songs were a traditional way of invoking good fortune on a Marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry. The earliest evidence for literary epithalamiums are fragments by Sappho; the oldest surviving Latin examples are three by Catullus. In the Renaissance, epithalamiums based on classical models were written in Italy, France, and England; that of Edmund Spenser (1595) is considered the finest in English.


bryozoan (iou)



bryozoan noun & adjective. L19.
[from mod. Latin Bryozoa (see below), from Greek bruon moss + zoia pl. of zoion animal: see -AN.]
Zoology.
A. noun. A member of the group Bryozoa (now regarded as comprising the phyla Ectoprocta and Entoprocta) of lophophorates, which form colonies often suggesting mossy growths. Also spec. = ECTOPROCTAN noun. L19.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the group Bryozoa. L19.
bryozo'ologist noun an expert in or student of bryozoology M20.
bryozo'ology noun the branch of zoology that deals with bryozoans M20.
bryozoon noun, pl. -zoa, = BRYOZOAN noun (usu. in pl.) M19.