VERTUMNUS
\vˈɜːtʌmnəs], \vˈɜːtʌmnəs], \v_ˈɜː_t_ʌ_m_n_ə_s]\
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By Thomas Davidson
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A Latin deity worshipped as concerned with everything relating to change, whether in the seasons or in commerce, etc. He is called the husband of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and harvest. The name is a participial form of the verb verto, I turn.
By Henry Percy Smith
Word of the day
3 Amino 1,2,4 triazole
- non-selective post-emergence, translocated herbicide. According the Seventh Annual Report on Carcinogens (PB95-109781, 1994) this substance may reasonably anticipated to be a carcinogen. (From Merck Index, 12th ed) It is an irreversible inhibitor of CATALASE, and thus impairs activity peroxisomes.