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Friday, April 27, 2007

A.Word.A.Day--annelidous:

"This week's theme: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order.

annelidous (uh-NEL-uh-duhs) adjective - Of or relating to worms.

[From French anneler (to ring), from Latin anellus, diminutive of anus (ring).]

'The mud in many places was thrown up by numbers of some kind of worm, or annelidous animal.'
Charles Darwin; Voyage of the Beagle; 1839."

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/annelidous.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/annelidous.ram

Posted by InfoPump at 9:09 PM
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