A.Word.A.Day --stramineous

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Feb 15, 2023

This week’s theme
Words for colors

This week’s words
aeneous
argent
stramineous
rubicund
virescent

A stramineous purse
Meaning 1: Yes
Meaning 2: Yes
Meaning 3: No
(It sells for $60)

Photo: Hobbs

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(struh-MIN-ee-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Straw-colored.
2. Of or relating to straw.
3. Like straw: Valueless.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin stramen (straw). Earliest documented use: 1624.

USAGE:

“Glistening yellow in the stramineous light, the worms boiled and reared and thudded in fury.”
Brian Aldiss; Hothouse; Faber and Faber; 1962.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they suffer? -Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (15 Feb 1748-1832)

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