Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
At least you may have had an inside toilet... maybe even one that flushed.
[eeeh, luxury]
[eeeh, luxury]
A really "clever" question............
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growingvegetables
Guru
- Location
- Leeds
Ah - but reniform is a botanical term. And that's just pressed flowers in Latin.
The geometric term is apparently nephroid. Mind you, it doesn't look anything like a kidney!
Ummmm - I'll just slink away into a corner like the curmudgeonly pedant I am.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Ok, sometimes pressed flowers in botany, also kidney-shaped leaves (or bean-shaped leaves) but the prefix reni- leads back to the kidney. I used to have a nephrologist, because I've got a dodgily-plumbed in kidney, who worked in the renal clinic, and he never ever brought up the question of pressed flowers or red beans.
Well, if you want to be truly pedantic, they both mean exactly the same:-
- reniform, from the Latin as you say = kidney shaped
- nephroid, from the Greek nephros = kidney shaped.
Hence a renal unit full of nephrologists.
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Nihal
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OMG:i'm more confused that before,whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Nihal
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Yes yes,thats what i thought,before these people showed up nephroid,spiro-(you read,i'm too lazy to type)
But thank you for the answers and...............maybe,another one "clever" question
And mind you,that nephroid has my head spinning literally,no i'm serious
