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PARA-372-Carcinisation: 🦀 Carson

Caretaker Status: Bonded to CARE-18

Affiliated companion(s): none

Level 6 - abstract
Word: Carcinisation

Origin:
From Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos) + -ization.
καρκίνος: Referring to crab.
-ization: A suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing something, or of making something.

Definition:
In evolutionary biology, carcinisation is a hypothesised process whereby a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form.
The term was introduced by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - Weirdly talented at creating nigh-infinite variants of the same basic thing (drawing the same scene in different media, remixing the same song in different genres, etc.), especially if it relates to crabs.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware