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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it
SARCINAE
“Roman legionaries had a type of marching pack formation called Sarcinae. We call the bacteria Sarcinae because it is shaped like a little packet or cube of eight cells all clumped together. Sarcinae means bundle in Latin. Didn’t everyone have a “this is Sparta phase?” Just me?”
@gnawingly · Ancient Rome
Found on Day 139
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