Felice S Wyndham, Ph.D.
Education- related; the term was used by Benjamin Lee Whorf for his lecture series in historical societies and the like (Language Thought and Reality: Selected Writings, page 6).
“In the Arandic [language] system, edible grubs are a part of the plant on which they are found, in much the same way a fruit or tuber is. Note that it is not known whether all edible grubs present in one tree species (named the same in Arandic languages) are a single scientific species or …
“No one knows the purpose of the tiny eye just above the compound eye” of the filbert worm moth, eater of acorns (and filberts, presumably). –p. 790, “Life in a nutshell,” National Geographic June 1989.
