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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--ecesis This week's theme: words from the plant kingdom. ecesis (i-SEE-sis) noun The entry or establishment of a plant in a new habitat. [From Greek oikesis (inhabitation), from oikein (to inhabit). Ultimately from Indo-European root weik- (clan) that is also the forebear of vicinity, village, villa, and villain (originally, a villain was a farm servant, one who lived in a villa or a country house).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. Decided to pack up and move to a new city? Why call it a mere moving (or shifting) when you can grandly announce your ecesis. -Anu Garg garg AT wordsmith.org "Perhaps there are also ecological barriers to ecesis in new habitats even when seeds arrive." Richard H. Groves; Australian Vegetation; Cambridge University Press; 1994. X-Bonus Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais Nin, author (1903-1977)

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