CoSM:Glossary
This article serves as a glossary for the many smaller terms in the wiki that don't require a dedicated page, at least for the moment.
Biology
Honeymilk
Honeymilk is a Kannoan animal byproduct produced by members of the class Melifera, comparable to milk in mammals. A major component of honeymilk is the trisaccharide sugar melezitose, also found in Earth animals, mostly insects in the form of honeydew. Honeymilk generally has a light cream colour and tends to be a little more viscous than mammalian milk, as is the case with urm and beecattle honeymilk.
Photodermal patch
The photodermal patch is a (usually) external organ found on the faces of phylum Photodermata on Elm. It is−as the name suggests−an area of exposed skin made of cells capable of sensing light to a limited degree. It accomplishes different tasks from one species to another. For example, on elmians it regulates the circadian rhythm and aids in emotional information, while on the benthic genus Anops of paons they are used for vision (mostly in the form of sensing changes in light at a short distance).
Politics
Misoxeny
Misoxeny is the prejudiced hatred of sophont species other than one's own. A person who acts upon misoxeny is a misoxenist. Misoxeny is a prolific problem during the initial stages of integration of other sophont species into the larger interstellar community, but it tends to attenuate with the passage of time. A good example of this were the initial reactions from urms towards the arrival of the SDO, often described as unwanted and invasive, especially by the more conservative clans. This prejudice was also reflected into the opinions of more isolationist people in places of (primarily) Elm, who frequently pushed for the abandonment of the urms due to their "unwieldy size" and lesser technological status.
Technology
Moonbrain
The Moonbrain is a moon-sized quantum supercomputer in orbit around Nausicaä, built from 12x PE until 1Na PE by the Search and Discovery Organisation prior to the advent of the Nenenet. Its equatorial radius is of about 1415 kilometres (around ~300 km less than that of the Earthen moon).