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The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy

n Mid-men, the male versions of mid-wives, are called accouchers.

n The working section of a piano is called the action.

n The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

n Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.

n The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

n The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.

n The tendency of the leaves or petals of certain plants to assume a different position at night is called nyctitropism.

n The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.

n Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is called pauciloquent.

— Compiled by Gaurav Sood