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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--cibarious This week's theme: words related to food. cibarious (si-BAR-ee-uhs) adjective 1. Relating to food. 2. Edible. [From Latin cibus (food).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In the flow of these exquisite sentences Mary was giving a cibarious concentration to the greasy menu card. 'Yes, they've got ravioli.'" Wanda Fraiken Neff; We Sing Diana; Houghton Mifflin; 1928. X-Bonus Every man's memory is his private literature. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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