Boojums

Word BOOJUMS
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A geometric pattern sometimes observed on the surface of superfluid helium-3.

A species of tree (Fouquieria columnaris) native to Baja California, Mexico.

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The word "boojums" in example sentences

There are fields of huge, sculpted white granite boulders or black lava cliffs that shelter botanical apparitions such as boojums (Fouquieria columnaris), twisted and swollen Baja elephant trees (Pachycormus discolor), sixty-foot (18 m) tall cardones, strangler figs (Ficus petiolaris ssp. palmeri) that grow on rocks, and blue palm trees (Brahea armata). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Are the widdle boojums all scared of the big bad lobbyists? ❋ Unknown (2010)

My words will be imaginotions, penandinkumpoops, whimpusles, mere boojums rather than classic snarks, for I shall not construct “Portmanteau” words, like Lewis Carroll. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Water is further conserved by reduced surface areas; most succulents have few leaves (agaves), no leaves (most cacti), or leaves that are deciduous in dry seasons (elephant tree [Bursera spp.], boojums [Fouquieria columnaris]). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Might the wabbet be interested in a pdf of 'some are boojums'? ❋ EliRabett (2009)

The thought was, if you ever actually did render ganking as meaningless as its victims call it, the gankers would fade away, snarks and boojums all. ❋ Glyn Moody (2007)

Instant gratification - no hidden boojums, all monsters spelled out and all magic visible. ❋ Gillpolack (2006)

Just wondering, since in my best fantasies of eventual publishment my daydreams become nightmares of taxes, insurance, and the evil IRS boojums. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

For all I really could tell he was trying to say something about snarks and boojums literally, since he talks at great length about snarks and boojums when dealing with mitochondria; I understood that stuff, probably better than he did himself, but what it really was supposed to say about mitochondrial DNA, I don't rightly know. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"We'd like to propose that the sub-elementary particles be designated 'snarks' and 'boojums,'" March had said. ❋ VONDA N.McINTYRE (1990)

As far as we know yet, the two particles they discovered are the basis of the whole universe—and they named them 'snarks' and 'boojums,' out of a Lewis Carroll poem. ❋ VONDA N.MCINTYRE (1990)

The matter in the nebula had been blasted apart by the Genesis wave, blasted beyond atoms, beyond subatomic particles, beyond quarks, down to the subelementary particles that Vance Madison and his partner Del March had whimsically named "snarks" and "boojums." ❋ VONDA N.MCINTYRE (1990)

Something I learned in school, no doubt -- like the snarks and the boojums. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

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