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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink 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).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "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. X-Bonus Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)

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