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Dec 24, 2019

This week’s theme
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This week’s words
jactancy
oryzivorous
gaminesque
twiforked
amaxophobia

Bobolink aka rice bird
Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Photo: Andrea Westmoreland / Wikimedia

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(oh-ri-ZIV-uhr-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Rice-eating.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin oryza (rice) + -vorous (feeding). Earliest documented use: 1857.

USAGE:

“China is an oryzivorous country.”
Mark McKenna; The Word Gang; Precipitation Press; 2010.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -John Morley, statesman and writer (24 Dec 1838-1923)

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