{"id":26929,"date":"2019-12-07T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26929"},"modified":"2019-12-07T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:14:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/07\/word-of-the-day-520\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>biovermiculation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>biovermiculation<\/b>, frequently called\u00a0<b>bioverm<\/b>,is a\u00a0<b>microbial community<\/b>\u00a0exhibiting a\u00a0<b>patterned growth<\/b>\u00a0within an\u00a0<b>extreme environment<\/b>. Bioverms are of interest in overlapping natural-science disciplines such as <b>geomicrobiology<\/b>,\u00a0<b>speleology<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>astrobiology<\/b>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/quotesanotes.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/what-is-biovermiculation-or-bioverm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Quotes &amp; Notes<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24432560-800-why-the-hunt-for-alien-life-is-under-way-far-beneath-earths-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth\u2019s surface<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Donna Lu<em>,\u00a0<strong>NewScientist\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(16 November 2019, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [cavern] adjoins a grey-black pool of water and the walls are covered with slimy, worm-like patterns called biovermiculations, created by slow-growing microbes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>biovermiculation: A\u00a0biovermiculation, frequently called\u00a0bioverm,is a\u00a0microbial community\u00a0exhibiting a\u00a0patterned growth\u00a0within an\u00a0extreme environment. Bioverms are of interest in overlapping natural-science disciplines such as geomicrobiology,\u00a0speleology\u00a0and\u00a0astrobiology.\u00a0[Quotes &amp; Notes] Noted in\u00a0\u201cWhy the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth\u2019s surface,\u201d\u00a0Donna Lu,\u00a0NewScientist\u00a0(16 November 2019, paywall): The [cavern] adjoins a grey-black pool of water and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/07\/word-of-the-day-520\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26930,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions\/26930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}