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May 7, 2025
This week’s themeWords with all the vowels This week’s words questionary cylindraceous ![]() ![]() Photo: Amy Buthod
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with Anu Gargcylindraceous
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Resembling a cylinder.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cylindrus, from Greek kylindros, from kylindein (to roll).
Earliest documented use: 1676.
NOTES:
Something cylindraceous rolls into your life like a can of soup:
efficient, symmetrical, and always ready to store something. The word
shows up in botany too, describing tube-shaped structures like flower
stalks or plant stems. So if someone says you have a cylindraceous head,
they might mean you’re well-rounded, at least vertically.
USAGE:
“Sherrie [was] bending down to examine a rigid cylindraceous thingy
attached to a harness.” Donald Huffman Graff; Madstones; BookLocker; 2024. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
-Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter,
educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
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