The stage names of the Lower Devonian (Downtonian, Dittonian and Breconian) and of the Upper Devonian (Farlovian) are all derived from localities in Shropshire or Breconshire.

Rift-sawn boards have a straight grain pattern as opposed to the circular pattern of the plain-sawn boards.

Humbugging is an unflattering term that relates to demanding or pressuring behaviour mainly in relation to money. […] Muriel Palmer said the respondent was humbugging her. Rosina Dickson said the respondent came up to her and asked her if she had any children and was sort of humbugging her.

Subsequent intramolecular cyclization of strictosidine yielded strictosamide, a penultimate precursor of CAM formation in C.