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."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
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)
So you are picking out women from magazines to drool over? What, did you forget to renew your subscription of Teen Magazine?
No, drooling is something that characterizes many women my age, particularly the ones you two straight-laced, age fanatics insist that I date.
Do you drool?
In the face of Muslim fecundity, the voluntary semelparousness of much of the West is, in this writer’s opinion, tantamount to cultural suicide.
obviously you can date whomever you please, but i think dating someone half your age or close thereto is just kind of gross. in its basest terms it is the visual equation of sex for money, and that does not speak well of either side of that equation. you know i am far from a prude.
The blonde is very cute, for a softball player. Those type and OB nurses have a high incidence of girls who play for the other team. How did your date go with the blue-haired wonder?
She’s cute period.
The Chinese are semelparous by law.
not the way i’d prefer to go!
ROR, i cannot believe you would STOOP so low!
I am cracking myself up here!
rickrolling is a new pastime i figure... ; )
The French are having fewer and fewer children these days, partly because of declining spiritual values and partly due to continued poor hygiene.
They say nowadays when you approach the capital city you can really semelparous...
That's hot.
No. It’s not.
You don’t want to semel like parous?
She’s like the clintons to me. I just want them to go away.
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