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Nov 25, 2020

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Supervocalic words

This week’s words
euphoria
quaternion
urticaceous
autotelic
vinaceous

Urtica dioica
From the book Flora von Deutschland, Österreich, und der Schweiz, 1885

Illustration: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

urticaceous

PRONUNCIATION:

(uhr-tih-KAY-shuhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Relating to a nettle.
2. Stinging.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin urtica (nettle), from urere (to burn). Earliest documented use: 1836.

USAGE:

“[Rhizostoma Aldrovandi] possesses an urticaceous apparatus, which produces an effect similar to the stinging nettle when applied to the skin.”
Louis Figuier; The Ocean World; Appleton; 1869.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (25 Nov 1835-1919)

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