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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - semelparous
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^ | 04/16/2008

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)


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To: SoothingDave; secret garden

have never had a whiff of the stuff, but i am betting it smells cheap and cheezy : )


81 posted on 04/16/2008 12:23:41 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

you like the chanteuse?


82 posted on 04/16/2008 12:24:23 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

83 posted on 04/16/2008 12:38:29 PM PDT by mikrofon ("We'll Always Have Paris... {sigh}")
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To: xsmommy

No, I was just playing on mikrofon’s horrible pun.


84 posted on 04/16/2008 12:45:36 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: mikrofon

: )

85 posted on 04/16/2008 12:46:57 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; mikrofon

yeah, i don’t think mik is a fan of the petrie dish either : )


86 posted on 04/16/2008 12:47:54 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

so are you totally cranked for tonight?


87 posted on 04/16/2008 12:49:27 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

Had my youngest been my first child I would have adopted a more semelparous attitude.


88 posted on 04/16/2008 12:53:15 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: xsmommy

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.


89 posted on 04/16/2008 12:56:29 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; martin_fierro

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??? ; )


90 posted on 04/16/2008 1:01:08 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

is dawnie eyeris from the pittsburgh? why they talking about him?


91 posted on 04/16/2008 1:03:48 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

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.


92 posted on 04/16/2008 1:05:17 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

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.


93 posted on 04/16/2008 1:06:08 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

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!


94 posted on 04/16/2008 1:07:01 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
now he is a a GEEK's geek! but dang good song!!
95 posted on 04/16/2008 1:10:36 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Of course he is. Well, Ellwood City. You must have left a long time ago to not know that.


96 posted on 04/16/2008 1:11:57 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
she found and sent me part 2~
97 posted on 04/16/2008 1:13:16 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

i moved to DC in 1979.


98 posted on 04/16/2008 1:15:02 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

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.


99 posted on 04/16/2008 1:15:05 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

it is a great song! he looks like a science major. big time.


100 posted on 04/16/2008 1:18:11 PM PDT by xsmommy
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