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Jul 11, 2025
This week’s theme
Words related to colors

This week’s words
fulvous
festucine
spadiceous
verdazurine
versicolored

versicolored
Versicolored Barbet

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with Anu Garg

versicolored

PRONUNCIATION:
(VUHR-si-kuhl-uhrd)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having many colors; variegated.
2. Having a color that changes in appearance; iridescent.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vertere (to turn) + color. Earliest documented use: 1721.

USAGE:
“Adjacent to the breakfront, a smaller bookcase contained a veritable farrago of versicolored origami.”
John J. Klingerman; The Voice of the Sphinx; Covenant Books; 2021.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management. -E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985)

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