RE: cymbospondylus

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

CV Vick (cv.vick@intel.com) wrote:
 
<cymb(o)- (cymb(o)-) [Gr. kymb[emacr], boat]  a combining form meaning
boat-shaped.>

  As Nick noted, this is a variation of the word _cumba_ (upsilon forming
"u" is often used to transcribe "y" as well). The "boat-like" or "small
boat" may refer to the often rounded, "shield-like" shape of a boat in
some areas, including the coastal mediterranean, with the centra of the
vertebrae forming the cup-like depression representative of the same shape
of the boat. I don't have the papers alliterating this, so this is an
assumption.

  Cheers,


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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