From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > William Vetter   wrote:   
   >> Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 11 May 2015 14:32:22 -0400, William Vetter   
   >>>  wrote   
   >>> in in   
   >>> rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>> Aileuromorphic is not in the dictionary (if you want to   
   >>>> spell it like ailourophobia, it won't be in there   
   >>>> either).   
   >>>   
   >>> Correction: like , the normal headword   
   >>> spelling, or occasionally the Latinized spelling   
   >>> ; the spelling  is extremely   
   >>> rare.   
   >>>   
   >>> Its meaning, however, is obvious: ‘cat-shaped’.   
   >>   
   >> Here is a word not in any dictionary, that will be impossible to derive   
   >> meaning from roots....   
   >>   
   >> pseudaelurine   
   >   
   > A teen-aged girl that wears cat ears and other cattish makeup to   
   > convenitons?   
      
   Having the proportions, especially skeletal, of the Miocene ancestor to   
   the Felids, pseudaelurus, a transition point between aboreal adaptation   
   (shorter metapodia with some grasping ability and lateral mobility at   
   the ankles) to cursorial (longer limbs, fixed ankles, fully digitigrade   
   stance), and also the branching point to the extinct subfamily   
   Machairodontae (sabertooth cats).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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