3083 GYASCUTUS vote

[Ryan McGill]

Hey, everyone!        
        
Validating my wait, we have fourteen definitions for GYASCUTUS, which have been mildly edited for consistency in formatting and then sorted in alphabetical order. Despite many similarities, I have not combined any, as the echoes between definitions delighted me. Any errors remaining are surely artifacts of my intervention.

One of these definitions was verified by a dictionary source. The remainder were clever deceptions dreamed up by your fellow players. Please vote for two by public reply to this message.        

1. Difficult to handle.
2. A dry scale that forms on corn and maize stalks, caused by the fungus Bipolaris maydis.
3. An extinct hominin known from fossil remains discovered in Java in 1891 thought to represent a species evolutionarily intermediate between humans and nonhuman apes.
4. A genus of wood boring beetles whose larvae make spiral tunnels inside tree trunks.
5. An illustrative, circular diagram.
6. An imaginary large four-legged beast with legs on one side longer than on the other for walking on hillsides.
7. An ox of southeast Asia (Gyas cutalis) sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
8. A rock formation consisting primarily of the fossilized remains of sea creatures.
9. The shell of a turtle.
10. A skin condition characterized by premature ageing, especially in the form of unusually fragile skin on the hands and feet.
11. A skin condition, usually of the lower leg, caused by dryness.
12. A thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, etc.
13. A water beetle of the suborder Adephaga, family Dytiscidae, found in shallow waters off the coast of Southeast Asia (full name, Dytiscus gyascutus).
14. [Latin] A weightbearing structure built to support an aqueduct.

 I have checked my SPAM folder, and the only messages I received were offers to augment my income, urgent demands to reply and unsubscribe, and an incredibly aggressive and persistent sales pitch for shoes and handbags, so I'm relatively certain none of them came from anyone on this forum (aside from the bots). If I still somehow missed your definition, please let me know. Also, if you're trying to sell me handbags, please, just make an OT post with a link to your Etsy store.

Those new to the game may vote, as may veteran players and those who did not submit a definition. But do please vote before looking the word up.        

Deadline for voting shall be 07:00 UTC on Sunday, the 28th of June, 2020, provided that gives enough leeway. You can verify against your local time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GYASCUTUS+votes+due&iso=20200628T07&p1=1440

I've looked this over a few times, and I think the times and dates are consistent. If not, please default to the deadline as in the link, as that's what I'll be referring to.

Cheers,        
Rx.

[Tim B]

12 and 13, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Shani Naylor]

Is it part of a turtle, a skin condition or a creature with a lopsided walk? I'll vote 6 & 11.

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[Judy Madnick]

I'll take the skin conditions today:

 

10. A skin condition characterized by premature ageing, especially in the form of unusually fragile skin on the hands and feet.
11. A skin condition, usually of the lower leg, caused by dryness.

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with the turtles, 9 and 12.

[Tim Lodge]

I'll go for 4 and 12:

 4. A genus of wood boring beetles whose larvae make spiral tunnels inside tree trunks.

12. A thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, etc.

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[Debbie]

1 and 14 please

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[Efrem G Mallach]

As long as I read through the entire list, I might as well vote for two near the end: 11 and 14.

Efrem

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On Jun 26, 2020, at 3:01 AM, Ryan McGill <ryanm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, everyone!        
        
Validating my wait, we have fourteen definitions for GYASCUTUS, which have been mildly edited for consistency in formatting and then sorted in alphabetical order. Despite many similarities, I have not combined any, as the echoes between definitions delighted me. Any errors remaining are surely artifacts of my intervention.

One of these definitions was verified by a dictionary source. The remainder were clever deceptions dreamed up by your fellow players. Please vote for two by public reply to this message.        

11. A skin condition, usually of the lower leg, caused by dryness.

[Daniel B. Widdis]

My spam folder's messages include offers to augment more than just my income, but perhaps you've lucked out.

I would be interested in seeing how #6 turns around to walk the other way.  Unless they just walk around the hill in circles, as illustrated by #5.

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[Christopher Carson]

Lacking a better idea, I’ll go with VOX POP.

 

11 and 12

 

Chris

 

[nancygoat]

Anti-vox pop: 2 and 9 for me.

Nancy

[Ryan McGill]

Daniel, up until this round, I had a note about my spam folder also trying to get me to augment my love life, but this month, apparently they think I'm okay there. Just in need of shoes and handbags.

[Johnb - co.uk]

Dan Wrote

I would be interested in seeing how #6 turns around to walk the other way.  Unless they just walk around the hill in circles, as illustrated by #5.

I knew this a humorous story about a local variant of hares and the problems of trying to breed greyhounds similarly specialised in order to catch them - the bright dog was the one who waited for them being chased by the greyhounds and forced them to go the wrong-way very slowly (wrong for them, that is)

FYI there is a genus of beetle with that name that bores in circles round a tree

JohnnyB

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