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      7 months ago

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yang

      the masculine active principle in nature that in Chinese cosmology is exhibited in light, heat, or dryness and that combines with yin to produce all that comes to be

      It distorts the connotation, but it wouldn’t be too far off to use, say, “macho” instead. It just feels weird to apply such words to plants.