The Oxford English Dictionary has this wonderful word-adoption website called Save the Words. You scroll over the words and adopt one that calls to you. I wanted to adopt them all! But I don't think I have the room in my vocabulary. After some agonizing deliberation, I decided to take two of them home: veprecose and ichthyarchy. Now I have to try to use them as much as possible to rescue them from obscurity.
Veprecose means "full of prickly shrubs or bushes."
Ichthyarchy means "the domain of fishes."
Maybe a sea floor bristling with prickly sea cucumbers could be a veprecose ichthyarchy?
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