Any other naturalists who are obsessed with the Spelling Bee game but get enraged when your nature nerd term isn’t on the “word list”? If so, welcome! This thread is for sharing screenshots of that dreaded response, and also to help everyone learn some terminlogy that might help them with their nat…

[image] jwidness: (but not humans). Don’t humans have a remnant of it on the inside corner of their eyes? (I’m not a human so I don’t know.)

[IMG_7669] Connate: Joined or united with a structure of the same kind, as sepals or petals. [American Heritage English Dictionary app] Connate petals are commonly seen in Ipomoea (morning-glory), Vaccinium (blueberry), Arctostaphylos (manzanita), and Solanum (nightshade). These are just four gen…

Petunia also has connate petals. I sometimes confuse Petunia with Ipomoea when identifying, so I put Solanales, which covers both.

[IMG_1306] The underside of a leaf in botany!

[IMG_1308] A pangram! In zoology it refers to being glassy or transparent. Also the namesake of the hyaloid canal, which separates the vitreous membrane of the eye in most mammals.

It’s been mentioned by a few folks, but here’s a screenshot of CORM being soullessly rejected by Spelling Bee: [57BA3ED4-D4CA-4DC1-8396-389ABB740F0A_1_201_a] According to Wikipedia, it’s a short, vertical, swollen, underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to su…

I was going to post that if someone else didn’t!

[image] I don’t think this one needs an explanation :grin:

Nature-related terms that aren't in the NY Times Spelling Bee game but darned well should be

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yayemaster August 10, 2025, 6:06pm 87

It was the first word I found before any other words!

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