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Less Well Known Cousins
I was watching a David Attenborough nature program and learned the meaning of a word I had seen many times. The word was HALTERE. I had imagined it was a word of French origin for some article of clothing or something. I certainly had no idea that it was the remnant of the rear wing of a fly that had evolved to be like a sort of gyroscope. That got me thinking. The only reason I knew the word was that it was the anagram of LEATHER. There are other combinations like that where