The California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus) is a species of spiny lobster found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico.
The word gypsum is derived from the Greek word Î³ÏÏÎ¿Ï (gypsos), plaster. Because the quarries of the Montmartre district of Paris have long furnished burnt gypsum (calcined gypsum) used for various purposes, this dehydrated gypsum became known as plaster of Paris.
Petrous â This adjective is derived from the Latin word for rock âpetraâ. It is applied to a part of the temporal bone that is particularly hard and rock-like. You may not have realized that the word petroleum has the same word as one of its roots.egmen is from the Latin verb tego, tegere to cover or shelter. Hence tegmen is the word for roof. Tympani is the possessive form of the Latin noun tympanum meaning a drum. So, the whole phrase just means the roof of the (ear) drum.