Well, technically you both missed and got two of them. XD (The real answer on those two being "both", hence the tickybox option instead of radio buttons.)
I considered either doing it with radio buttons and adding a "Both" option, or mentioning that some might be both, but then decided to be sneaky and annoying.
(Reminds me of my brain-fart on the name of the strange trees in our neighborhood with the huge heart-shaped leaves and the strange bean-like seedpods: I keep thinking tilapia but what I mean is catalpa.)
I knew what an onager was, but in Japan I once complimented a child on her adorable stuffed eel (unagi rather than usagi, which is rabbit), causing her to fall on the floor laughing. To be fair, I was drunk at the time.
I ACTUALLY STUDY ONAGERS. Well, kinda. I do have to talk about them alot! It was quite exciting to see something I know a lot about on a 'weird word' quiz.
Posting them here in a straightforward manner so you don't have to parse all the comment above to get them. Of course, you've already read them all before you scrolled down to here, so my efforts are in vain! Haha!
Gastraphetes - Siege engine. Gastroparesis is the stomach illness.
Oxybelis - Snake genus. Oxybeles is the siege engine.
Helepolis - Siege engine. There's a proprietary sunscreen formula named something like "Helepoxy" or "Heliopoxy" that I was thinking of.
Onager - A wild ass. Also a siege engine! It was named after the wild ass because of its kick, or so Wikipedia tells me. And NOW you see why I used tickyboxes and not radio buttons! I am SNEEKY! Like NINJA!
Mangonel - Siege engine. I was hoping you'd think of mango, then vaguely remember that there's another fruit that's mangosomething, and check the "tropical fruit" tickybox when you couldn't quite recall "mangosteen." It didn't work all that well. :)
Musculus - A house mouse! Also a siege engine named for the house mouse! Known to me only by one line in the Wikipedia article on siege engines, so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get it. :)
Machine/mechanism/device used in warfare primarily for breaking down fortified walls or for flinging stuff over said walls. Think battering rams, catapults, and so on.
I am ... humbled. No, fuck humbled - I *suck*. :( I feel like the crash test dummy in the Carmax game show commercial - "Dude, that was a safety question..."
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Perhaps a conflation of unagi and elver?
(Reminds me of my brain-fart on the name of the strange trees in our neighborhood with the huge heart-shaped leaves and the strange bean-like seedpods: I keep thinking tilapia but what I mean is catalpa.)
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Only missed Musculus as a siege engine . . .
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Answers!
Gastraphetes - Siege engine. Gastroparesis is the stomach illness.
Oxybelis - Snake genus. Oxybeles is the siege engine.
Helepolis - Siege engine. There's a proprietary sunscreen formula named something like "Helepoxy" or "Heliopoxy" that I was thinking of.
Onager - A wild ass. Also a siege engine! It was named after the wild ass because of its kick, or so Wikipedia tells me. And NOW you see why I used tickyboxes and not radio buttons! I am SNEEKY! Like NINJA!
Mangonel - Siege engine. I was hoping you'd think of mango, then vaguely remember that there's another fruit that's mangosomething, and check the "tropical fruit" tickybox when you couldn't quite recall "mangosteen." It didn't work all that well. :)
Musculus - A house mouse! Also a siege engine named for the house mouse! Known to me only by one line in the Wikipedia article on siege engines, so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get it. :)
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6 out of 6!!!!11111oneone
Damn, I'm good!
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eta: and onager. Didn't realize it was also a siege engine. XD