Posted on 04/16/2008 4:17:50 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
semelparous • \seh-MEL-puh-rus\ • adjective
reproducing or breeding only once in a lifetime
Example sentence:
Each year the semelparous salmon return to the stream where they hatched to spawn, and they die soon thereafter.
Did you know?
The combining form "-parous" was first used in English by the 17th-century physician and writer Sir Thomas Browne, who wrote about organisms that were "multiparous" ("producing more than one at a birth"), "oviparous" ("producing eggs that develop outside the maternal body"), and "viviparous" ("producing living young instead of eggs from within the body"). The suffix is based on the Latin verb "parere," meaning "to give birth to," which is also a relative of the word that gave us "parent." "Semelparous," the youngest offspring of "-parous," was born in 1954. Its other parent is "semel," the Latin word for "once."
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Chris Matthews is known as the Fat Pantload in our classroom, btw ; )
You’re right, they just don’t sound quite right. It sounded so rehearsed.
You know how in California you can go skiing in the morning, then drive to the beach in the afternoon?
We have the same sort of thing here. You can scrape frost off of your windows in the morning, then cut grass after work.
I was sure that Steve said this morning that the producer who okayed Peter’s question was from a local cable station..........
i haven’t even seen pictures of them, do they looks sort of Amish as far as dress and no makeup etc? that’s what i am picturing.how old did these women look?> I know the one w/o kids said she is 23 and that the authorities refused to believe her ID and said she was 17.
Peter told him that the folks at MSNBC asked him what question he wanted to ask.
So when Matthews complained about the smart ass questions, it was the people at MSNBC that permitted the questions to be asked.
i kind of like that, though. i hate having it be hot and hazy first thing in the AM, as it will be later this summer. i like that brisk air with a nip in it, first thing.
Chrissy was just jealous bc smartass questions are his own forte and he resented someone stealing his line!
Yes, they do look sort of Amish. It’s hard to pinpoint their ages. Two of them look mid 20s or so and the 3rd a bit older, but again it’s hard to tell.
They’re on right now (not sure if it is live or a replay from earlier) Gretchen posed the idea that they sound like many of the woman she has dealt with in her work with battered spouses.
The 3 I just saw were a different group of 3 than the ones earlier.
hey! wasn’t Webb Hubble semelparous? what with Chelsea and all....
that’s semelparous, NOT camleparous, btw...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Carter had two sons along with the daughter.
Just another reason to loathe Jimmy Hussein Carter.
The single worst president of my lifetime, for his role during and after his thankfully single term.
Bummer. I suppose if the Pope came to River City, we’d have trouble finding a place to park downtown, too. As it is, there’s ample space most days.
Someone needs run out of town on a rail. Probably the superintendant.
Wouldn’t surprise me if 90% of the teams here said the Lord’s Prayer in the locker room before a game.
East Brunswick? That takes me back. Route 18, the heaviest traffic I knew as a kid. It was always bumper-to-bumper.
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