This week’s theme
Words made with combining forms

This week’s words
hippology
hypogeal
xerophilic
steganography
nidicolous

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hy-puh-JEE-uhl, HIP-uh-)

MEANING:

adjective: Underground: living, growing, or existing below the surface of the earth.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek hypo- (under) + -geal (relating to earth), from ge (earth). Earliest documented use: 1686.

USAGE:

“A long black escalator lowered the two of them into the hypogeal twilight of the McPherson metro-station.”
M.B. Neff; Year of the Rhinoceros; Red Hen Press; 2009.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: