"Cydonin" is a word in ENGLISH
A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds
of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
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