Today was a very lab/practical heavy day, so I didn't learn much in the way of interesting factoids, but rather reinforced things from previous days. But in preparation/procrastination for tomorrow, I did learn something:
TIL: One of the ways of describing the bacterial colony feature of elevation, or the raised/flattened appearance of the colony, is the term
umbonate. Umbonate comes from the latin root
umbo which describes a "boss," or raised bump on a shield. This is the same ultimate root as the modern word
emboss, which took a detour through French before becoming part of the English lexicon.
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| A boss on a shield |
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