heavy-stoned

Updated: May 27, 2025

There is that of possibility in being positively thigmotactic which makes one dread the necessity of exposing and limiting its meaning, of digging down to its mathematically accurate roots. It could never be called a flower of speech: it is an over-ripe fruit rather: heavy-stoned, thin-fleshed an essentially practical term.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle