Associations to the word «Epiphragm»

Wiktionary

EPIPHRAGM, noun. A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope