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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--serotine This week's theme: miscellaneous words. serotine (SER-uh-tin, -tyn) adjective Late in occurring, forming, or flowering. noun A small brown bat (Eptesicus serotinus) native of Europe and Asia (named after its habit of appearing late in the evening). [From Latin serotinus (belated), from serus (late).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "We passed along, athwart the twilight peering Forward as far as ever eye could stretch Against the sunbeams serotine and lucent." Dante Alighieri; The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); 1867. X-Bonus I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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