different between syntexis vs woodwasp

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnt?xis, “a melting”)

Noun

syntexis (uncountable)

1. (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
   • 1857, in the Geological Magazine, volume 85, page 355:

     [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.

2. (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
   • 1885, Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication, in the New York Medical Abstract, volume 5, page 443:

     The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

See also

• syntaxis

English

Alternative forms

• wood wasp

Etymology

wood +? wasp

Noun

woodwasp (plural woodwasps)

1. Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.

Derived terms

• cedar wood wasp (Anaxyelidae)

See also

• Syntexis