[Dragaera] levidopt [_Jhegaala_ spoilers]

[Philip Hart]

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Mark Mandel wrote:

> The names of the jhegaala's developmental stages look and sound like real
> biological words, but (except for "egg") I'm pretty sure they're all
> invented. Raw Google hits:
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>   - Apoptera: 2, both in Swedish, typos for *adoptera*, meaning 'adopt'

This is reminiscent of "apoptosis", a variety of programmed cell death.
Which is important in an embryo's development, so it's quite relevant.
Maybe even Vlad's loss of a finger is covered.  And maybe even Verra's
dream intervention is alluded to via "programmed".