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apelsin (sv) from sinaasappel (nl)

was just playing around with the Dutch course on the famed, almost homicidal, green owl platform when I got the thrill to discover a familiar word: sinaasappel. what was in the mind of the person who called an orange a Chinese apple? i tried to (briefly) look for the etymology but haven’t found a satisfactory explanation to the inception of the word. would love to see the trade history between China and the related countries

#duolingo #dutch #swedish #wordsense

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Do they not have skulls!? Why is it mushy there!?!? @bunjywunjy

bunjywunjy

well of course beluga has a skull!! that's just not where it is.

see, you wouldn't necessarily pick up on this, but beluga skulls (and most cetacean skulls in general) are pretty much

flat...

so what's going on up there? well, most of the beluga's head is taken up by soft tissue and a large organ called the melon, which is basically a big ol waterballoon of semiliquid fat!

(boob. it's a head boob.)

this organ is found in every toothed whale and dolphin species on the planet and it's INCREDIBLY important, because the melon is what lets them echolocate!

the actual sound-producing organ is inside their nasal passage of all places, which sits up behind there, but the melon is what's actually used to fine-tune the soundwaves into the laser-accurate pinpoints that dolphins and toothed whales are so famous for.

tldr: without their head boob, belugas and their relatives would be literally flying blind!

bonmacka

I love how they named that specific organ (?) as a melon.