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Mosaic vs Salmagundi - What's the difference?

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Mosaic is a related term of salmagundi.


As nouns the difference between mosaic and salmagundi

is that mosaic is mosaic while salmagundi is a food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.

mosaic

English

Alternative forms

* mosaick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
  • (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
  • (botany) A viral disease of plants.
  • A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.

    • Related terms

    * alphamosaic * mosaicism * mosaicist * photomosaic

    See also

    * ("mosaic" on Wikipedia) *

    salmagundi

    English

    (wikipedia salmagundi)

    Alternative forms

    * solomongundy * Solomon Gundy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
  • Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 544:
  • *:Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage , which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
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    • Synonyms

    * (mixture of various ingredients) miscellany, olio, potpourri

    References

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