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This week's theme Blends. This week's words advertorial cultivar exurb spokesmodel rollick Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cultivar PRONUNCIATION: (KUHL-tuh-var) MEANING: noun: A variety of plant that has been produced by selective breeding. A cultivar is developed for specific attributes and retains those attributes in further propagation. ETYMOLOGY: A blend of cultivation + variety. USAGE: "For many competitors, growing record-setting vegetables is more business than gardening. Seeds from a consistent winning cultivar can fetch as much as $500 each." Joe Lamp'l; Giant Pumpkins the Result of Extreme Gardening; Scripps Howard News Service; Oct 27, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. -Mario Cuomo, 52nd Governor of New York (b. 1932)

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