Entertainment / Literature / Locus Classicus: (Latin, 'classic place') A passage often cited as authoritative or illustrative on a particular point or subject. For instance, when it comes to explaining what a neologism is, the opening lines of the poem 'Jabberwocky' have become the English teacher's locus classicus, and so on.
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Entertainment / Literature / Locus Classicus: (Latin, 'classic place') A passage often cited as authoritative or illustrative on a particular point or subject. For instance, when it comes to explaining what a neologism is, the opening lines of th MORE
Health / Yoga / Locust (Salabhasana): A backbend. Lie on your stomach. Raise both legs up behind the body. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Locus Amoenus: (Latin, 'pleasant place') A pleasant locale and time, traditionally a green Edenic garden on a temperate but sunny spring day--especially in the month of May. This is the traditional setting for the o MORE
Science / Genetics / Locus (Pl. Loci): The position on a chromosome of a gene or other chromosome marker: also, the dna at that position. The use of locus is sometimes restricted to mean regions of dna that are expressed. See gene expressi MORE
Science / Marine Biology / Genetic Locus: A location on a chromosome (possibly of a diploid organism with variants that segregate according to the rules of Mendelian heredity) MORE