This week’s theme
Words with all the vowels

This week’s words
elucidatory
questionary
cylindraceous
autocephality
quodlibetary

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(sil-in-DRAY-shuhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Resembling a cylinder.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin cylindrus, from Greek kylindros, from kylindein (to roll). Earliest documented use: 1676.

NOTES:

Something cylindraceous rolls into your life like a can of soup: efficient, symmetrical, and always ready to store something. The word shows up in botany too, describing tube-shaped structures like flower stalks or plant stems. So if someone says you have a cylindraceous head, they might mean you’re well-rounded, at least vertically.

USAGE:

“Sherrie [was] bending down to examine a rigid cylindraceous thingy attached to a harness.”
Donald Huffman Graff; Madstones; BookLocker; 2024.

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