plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'm growling and hissing, although denied A mortar and pestle are kept nearby I wriggle and writhe For I'm quite alive Ensuring the fauna can grow and survive I reach with my fingers and feel the wave The master of many a hoggish knave To roam, I'm not keen Equator's my scene I live on the isles and slither 'cross beans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 rain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 rain not that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 worms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 some kind of river - Maybe the Amazon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 some kind of river - Maybe the Amazon? I like that answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 neither a hissing worm nor a river with mortar and pestle (although I do admit that a river can carve) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'm growling and hissing, although denied A mortar and pestle are kept nearby I wriggle and writhe For I'm quite alive Ensuring the fauna can grow and survive I reach with my fingers and feel the wave The master of many a hoggish knave To roam, I'm not keen Equator's my scene I live on the isles and slither 'cross beans i think the answer is lava Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Seaweed, Kelp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Just some thoughts... Islands = Java or Sumatra Beans = Coffee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 the name of an active volcanic island near the equator...hawaii? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Just some thoughts... Islands = Java or Sumatra Beans = Coffee When I first read I thought it was guano or something like that. Don't some coffees come from that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Galapagos Islands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Not heading in the right direction yet I fear I may have made this too abstruse if the BrainDeners haven't nailed it It does admittedly call for a bit of not-quite-so-common knowledge for one of the clues But not the whole riddle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'm growling and hissing, although denied A mortar and pestle are kept nearby I wriggle and writhe For I'm quite alive Ensuring the fauna can grow and survive I reach with my fingers and feel the wave The master of many a hoggish knave To roam, I'm not keen Equator's my scene I live on the isles and slither 'cross beans I'm quite stumped, but it's one of the most beautiful and well written riddles I've seen in a long time. Words are SO well chosen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Have something to do with food or medicine? That's what the mortar and pestle leads me to believe. Edited April 30, 2009 by Gubdude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Have something to do with food or medicine? That's what the mortar and pestle leads me to believe. That's getting warmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 That's getting warmer I originally thought flora, but I didn't think it fit, so I didn't say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) I originally thought flora, but I didn't think it fit, so I didn't say it. the answer doesn't fall in the "vegetable" category Edited April 30, 2009 by plasmid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'm thinking hunger or appetite, but it doesn't work for a lot of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 the answer doesn't fall in the "vegetable" category I don't know why it must fall into a vegetable category, perhaps because of the survival/mortar and pestle, but that's not why I thought it wouldn't fit. Flora is not flowers, it's all natural plant life on the earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 by the way, I wanted to eliminate my obvious first guess, and my husband reminded me of it when I read it to him.it's not any sort of snake, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 not a snake. and not hunger or appetite: the answer, like the answers to my other riddles, and like my head, is quite concrete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Just to make sure that this is not the wrong direction - fingers are not cilia, and the answer has little to do with biology? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Just to make sure that this is not the wrong direction - fingers are not cilia, and the answer has little to do with biology? Aha, another biologist has come along! You're following the right track. I suspect this riddle riddle's time is nigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Not a carnivorous plant, I wonder if I know the answer at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I'm growling and hissing, although denied
A mortar and pestle are kept nearby
I wriggle and writhe
For I'm quite alive
Ensuring the fauna can grow and survive
I reach with my fingers and feel the wave
The master of many a hoggish knave
To roam, I'm not keen
Equator's my scene
I live on the isles and slither 'cross beans
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