Dendroglyph (noun)
den-dro-glif
an image, message, or symbol carved into a tree, especially by Indigenous people and often hundreds of years old, providing cultural and historical information not available from other sources.
Coined in 1918 by Australian curator Robert Etheridge, Jr. Formed from dendro-, “tree,” and glyph, “carving,”
Example sentences
“The forest was mostly dead wood now but the dendroglyphs were still present.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
