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Aunt

Aunt

1. The sister of one's father or mother; correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.

2. An old woman; and old gossip.

3. A bawd, or a prostitute. Aunt sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

Origin: OF. Ante, f. Tante, L. Amita fathers sister. Cf. Amma.


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Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

... disease, and hereditary hemochromatosis I have a friend who lost her parents a few years ago and she is doing just fine living with her aunt. aint she lucky the full quote says All members of the human population play their part in the survival of the species- humans are not a species ...

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by gamila
Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
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Re: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

... Human children can survive without their parents. I have a friend who lost her parents a few years ago and she is doing just fine living with her aunt. which occur in about one in every 200 births. Examples are cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anemia, Sickle cell anemia helps people to survive against ...

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by futurezoologist
Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:23 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
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hair color

... entirely white hair by the time she was 17, so my 'silver' hair is caused by genetics I share a lack of some kind of protein in my body with my aunt. I know this may sound cliche but a change in hair color can be caused by severe stress or shock as well.

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by Jones
Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:11 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: hair color
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Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)

... and I have been thinking a lot about this problem. I have two younger cousins who are 7 and 9 and I am helping mold them into bug-lovers : ) My aunt found a dead velvet ant for me last week. She told me she was stung by one when she was young and she is accepting of insects. Maybe she wasn't ...

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by February Beetle
Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:28 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Talk about INSECTZ or get outta here:)
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The Fiber Disease

... 2,4,6,9 and 11. It killed my mom at 57. My dad is in the hosp now at 62 dying. Uncle 54, Mother in law 65. Father in law 63. I have a very sick aunt and one sister left. I am sure she is affected as she lives with dad. My kids have this. I don't know if I hope I go first and leave them without ...

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by RANDY
Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:02 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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