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    In which language is the name for a flap of skin inside my throat the same as that for a nut which is in fact a fruit?

    Question #56193. Asked by Flynn_17. (Mar 26 05 11:50 AM)


    meagen

    		I'm guessing Arabic but if you say drupe I'll say don't use that stone of peach.
    http://www.answers.com/topic/almond#Translations

    Mar 27 05, 4:52 AM
    Flynn_17

    		Nope, it's not Arabic. These are two fairly widely spoken languages in the school systems, if this helps anyone.

    Mar 27 05, 6:01 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		Spanish perhaps?

    Mar 27 05, 7:41 AM
    Flynn_17

    		Nope.

    Mar 27 05, 8:34 AM
    gmackematix

    		The tonsils are lymph tissue, not skin, but in several Romance languages (including Spanish) the word for tonsil is some form of "amigdala". This word ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek word for almond.
    Botanically speaking, almonds are classified as fruits rather than nuts.

    Mar 27 05, 9:38 PM
    jbean

    		Uvula comes from Latin for a bunch of grapes. Regardless of what Euell Gibbons called them, grapes are not nuts.

    Mar 27 05, 9:38 PM
    gmackematix

    		Not so much a bunch as a little grape as uvula is a diminutive form of "uva" meaning grape.
    So etymologically, the throat contains a couple of almonds, a small grape and an Adam's apple. There's enough there for a supermodel's salad.

    Mar 27 05, 10:48 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		Most supermodels don't have Adam's apples though... (just as well)

    Mar 28 05, 3:42 AM
    peasypod

    		Would you classify Fabio as a supermodel? Apart from adorning covers of Mills and Boon drivel, he doesn't do much else.

    Mar 29 05, 12:05 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		I was careful to say "most". Fabio is the one exception I can think of.

    Mar 29 05, 3:22 AM

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