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My dad sent me the word "ichnograph", which he found in the Visitor Center of Charleston, SC. All I could guess for it was writing done by or with an ichneumon wasp, or better yet an ichneumon itself, possibly using a brush made of its fine tail-hairs.
No, it's "A ground-plan; the representation of the horizontal section of a building or of part of it (or, rarely, of some object resting on the ground); also, the plan or map of a place." (OED2) From ichnos trace, footprint. Whence also "ichnology", "That part of palaeontology which treats of fossil footprints."
But the ichneumon wasp is not so far away.
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No, it's "A ground-plan; the representation of the horizontal section of a building or of part of it (or, rarely, of some object resting on the ground); also, the plan or map of a place." (OED2) From ichnos trace, footprint. Whence also "ichnology", "That part of palaeontology which treats of fossil footprints."
But the ichneumon wasp is not so far away.
( Read more... )
