ABC Wednesday is a word meme with participants from around the world. This fabulous meme was created and hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt who hails from Great Britain. Over time, others have joined in to help host this wonderful and informative meme. We are now in our ELEVENTH round with 'Captain Roger' at the helm! Some of the participants have been with this from the very first round; others have joined in along the way. Each week we are taken across the globe to see the varied and exciting contributions people have taken the time to discover and capture. We start with the letter, "A" and each week we post something in regards to the next letter of the alphabet. This week's letter is, "V".
VOLBORTHITE
(image from WIkipedia's site)
Volborthite is defined as a mineral vanadate of calcium, barium, and copper occurring in hexagonal green or yellow crystals.
VIVIPAROUS
(image from the dictionary of Ichtyology)
Viviparous: bearing or bringing forth living young (as with most mammals and other animals). In this illustration, it is a fish. In botany, germinating while still on the parent plant, as certain seeds or bulbs (remember the post I did with the image of pineapple plant? One could say that the pineapple plant is viviparous.
VOLUTE
(image from Wikipedia's site)
In architecture, volute is a spiral scroll forming one of the chief features of Ionic and Corinthian capitals. A volute is also a spiral or twisting form; a turn; a whorl.
VULPIC
Vulpic is of or pertaining to, or obtained from the lichen, Cetraria vulpina.
9 comments:
Fun, different and great words for the V Day, Paula!! Hope your week is off to a good start! Enjoy the day!
Such good V words and shots to go with them.
Wow, some really Vivacious words here today, Paula. I think I'll choice Vulpic as my fave this week. (it almost sounds rude! lol)
Leslie
abcw team
Fascinating as always.
I realize how lacking my vocabulary really is.
OK now that I see these words I realize how Very limited my V Vocabulary is indeed. Time to hit the dictionary !!
PhenoMenon, ABCW Team
That first picture - no, didn't know the word - reminds me of a map of Greece!
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
4 new words to try to add to my VOCABULARY memory! certainly VARIED!
All new words for me, so thank you! Love to stretch what's left of my brain and these words and great photos will hopefully make the cobwebs vamoose :)
I think my daughter would be interested with the volborthite, she is into things like this one.
V is for..
Rose, ABC Wednesday Team
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