Both Uses of
assortment
in
Oryx and Crake
- The shrieks of the birds that nest out there and the distant ocean grinding against the ersatz reefs of rusted car parts and jumbled bricks and assorted rubble sound almost like holiday traffic.†
p. 3.5 *
- The goal of the pigoon project was to grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig host — organs that would transplant smoothly and avoid rejection, but would also be able to fend off attacks by opportunistic microbes and viruses, of which there were more strains every year.†
p. 22.6
Definition:
a collection containing a variety of a sort of a thing