Natiforms!

Yay! Who wants to learn about Natiforms?

Simply put, a Natiform is something that resembles a butt.

Yeah. You didn't expect that.

What my family said:

"Someone who follows the ideas of Ralph Nader?" -Mom

"A Chemical Compund, like Chloroform?"  -Dad

"A Natural Structure"  -Jess

Yeah. They were wrong.

Anyways, the word Natiform comes from the Latin Nati- meaning buttocks and -form.  Meaning exactly that. Resembling the shape of a buttocks.  So yeah. Not as much information as I originally desired...
Natiform was originally a medical term, used mainly for a tumor/cyst that made that shape.
Ammon Shia used the word Natiform in his book "Reading the Oxford English Dictionary". He then learned that the word had never been used as an insult. So what did he do? He used Natiform to insult people. What else?

"The Natiform on the baby's skull actually was a mango taped on."

Grawlix. Next week's word is Grawlix.

Dysania, the newest outbreak of disease. But not really.

DYSANIA

Do you suffer from Dysania? You probably do. As do I. And basically everyone else on Earth suffers from Dysania! (In a loose sense of the term...)

Simply put, Dysania is the unofficial term for "Not wanting to get out of bed in the morning."  Right?! Literally 99% of people DON'T LIKE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING! But, hey, can you really blame them? I mean, does anybody really like getting up at... Whatever time? No. At least I don't.

Actually, the word Dysania is a more common word for the actual term, Clinomania.  And, apparently, it's an actually serious affliction!  I guess there are people out there that completely have problems getting out of bed. And, no. It's not that they just hit the Snooze button a couple of extra times. They can suffer from headaches to migraines, from extreme tiredness to depression.  So, I guess we don't actually all have it. We just like our beds. :)

Clinomania (Which is nowhere near as awesome-sounding as Dysania) comes from the Greek roots Clino- , meaning bed, and -Mania, meaning addiction.  So really, it's like having a drug addiction in a sense. You just love it so much that you always need more.  Although, in this case, it just means more than you already had, not more each time.  Okay. So it isn't like that at all. Sue me.

How could you use this in a sentence? Wow... Uh... How about like this:
The red Dragon, afflicted by dysania, often had trouble waking up, so he rigged a bucket of hot ashes to fall on him every morning.
That works, right?

Yeah. I didn't really have much to go on this week. But next week (Or rather in 2 weeks), I will make up for it completely with the word Natiform. And, again, please don't look it up ahead of time. This will be your last warning.

ALSO! I had a question.  I've heard (From Wikipedia) that you can use the sentence Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. This would technically mean "The Bison from Buffalo, NY, that are bothered by the Bison from NY, bother the Bison from NY." So, in the Buffalo Buffalo... etc, would you need a the and a that in there, as in:
The Buffalo buffalo (that Buffalo buffalo buffalo) buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Right?

Petrichor

Finally! The moment you have "all" been waiting for.....

*Insert Drum-Roll Sound here*

PETRICHOR

Okay. Okay. I know you've been waiting all week for this, so...

Petrichor is the actual word for the smell of rain on dry ground! Who knew that actually had a name? I did. Only because I looked it up. Anyways, the word Petrichor is derived from the Greek roots Petri-, meaning stone, and -ichor, which is the fluid that flows in the veins of the Gods.  So, really, when you smell that first rain, you are technically smelling the "blood" from Poseidon's and Zeus's veins being thrust upon the stones of the ground.                                                     HOW METAL IS THAT!?!?!*

The term Petrichor was coined by two Australian research scientists.  I.J. Bear and R.G. Thomas described the smell in a 1964 article in Nature, an Australian Journal. They described a smell of "The oils exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is absorbed by clay-based soils and rocks." Bear and Thomas, 1964.

Also, not really related, but the word Petrichor was used in 2 episodes of Doctor Who.  In one episode, it appeared as a smell of perfume!

Be on the lookout** for next week's word, Dysania!   "Who will contract it next?!"

*The combination of an exclamation mark and Question mark is called an Interrobang.  ( ‽ ) THE MORE YOU KNOW!

*But again. Please don't look it up ahead of time.