Parma vs Aspis - What's the difference?
parma | aspis |
(Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style
A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.
A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
* {{quote-book, 1963, William Kurtz Wimsatt, What to Say About a Poem and Other Essays
, passage="shield both large and tough" has never said that aspides are small and weak
(archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake
* {{quote-book, 1588, , Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, chapter=The History of Dorastus and Fawnia, year_published=1907
, passage=Flesh dipped in the sea Ægeum will never be sweet; the herb Trigion being once bit with an aspis never groweth, and conscience once stained with innocent blood is always tied to a guilty remorse.}}
(palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain
* {{quote-book, 1974, Eugene Cecil Ogden, Manual for Sampling Airborne Pollen
, passage=As might be expected, characters of the aspides themselves are not of much value in pollen identification, but they are easily recognized and many three-pored, aspidate grains are broadly categorized as "betuloid" in studies of airborne pollen.}}
As nouns the difference between parma and aspis
is that parma is a dish cooked in the parmigiana style while aspis is a type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers.As a proper noun Parma
is province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.parma
English
Etymology 1
From (parmigiana).Noun
(head)- The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) parma.Noun
(parmae)Anagrams
* ----aspis
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