A.Word.A.Day --festucine

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Jul 8, 2025

This week’s theme
Words related to colors

This week’s words
fulvous
festucine
spadiceous
verdazurine
versicolored

A festucine horse: Belarusian folk art

Photo: Wikimedia

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

festucine

PRONUNCIATION:

(FES-tyuh-syn/seen)

MEANING:

adjective: Of a pale yellow or straw-like color.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin festuca (stalk, straw). Earliest documented use: 1646.

USAGE:

“The growing tailings pond ... glittered festucine yellow in the morning light.”
Malcolm Crawford; Sheila’s Tree; iUniverse; 2004.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. -Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul 1621-1695)

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