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Jul 9, 2025
This week’s themeWords related to colors This week’s words festucine spadiceous ![]() ![]()
A white anthurium with spadices in the center
Photo: Ramesh NG
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with Anu Gargspadiceous
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Of a reddish-brown color. 2. Relating to a spadix, the floral spike usually enclosed in a spathe. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin spadix (a torn-off palm branch and its fruit), from Greek
spadix (a torn-off frond). Earliest documented use: 1646.
USAGE:
“Home, we find one of our own mentionable birds ... weaving inflatable
migrating spadiceous chiffons.” Morgan Benson; The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe; Xlibris; 2010. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an
adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that
the fear of telling the truth -- whatever the truth may be -- that fear is
the most painful sensation of a moral life. -June Jordan, writer, teacher,
and activist (9 Jul 1936-2002)
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