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)
have never had a whiff of the stuff, but i am betting it smells cheap and cheezy : )
you like the chanteuse?
No, I was just playing on mikrofon’s horrible pun.
: )
yeah, i don’t think mik is a fan of the petrie dish either : )
so are you totally cranked for tonight?
Had my youngest been my first child I would have adopted a more semelparous attitude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6P9g89cL8k
Not sure what this guy is going on about, or why he seems to be wearing a Mexican wrestler costume, but the accent is classic.
i bet he is a GOOD TIME!! LOL! donnie IRIS? what the heck?
that accent made me feel all warm and cozy and nostalgic n’at. can we be sure that ain’t marteen unner that mask??? ; )
is dawnie eyeris from the pittsburgh? why they talking about him?
I suspect the guy is trying to be funny, but he doesn’t have to try very hard.
Send that to xsteen and see if any of her suthren friends can deciper it.
n dint you say that your first concert was dawnie eyeris? he’s a half a fag n’at. i am still roaring over this, am sending it to xsbro and xsSIL.
we are talking about it now, i sent it to her in IM already, she thought it was pretty funny, but she doesn’t know from donnie iris!
Of course he is. Well, Ellwood City. You must have left a long time ago to not know that.
i moved to DC in 1979.
There are like 65 vocal tracks to “Ah! Leah!” All of his voice. High ones, low ones, in between ones. Thats why he’s fun to see in concert cause his songs allow anyone to sing along.
it is a great song! he looks like a science major. big time.
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