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Word For The Day, Thursday, March 30, 2006 - esculent
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| March 30, 2006
| secret garden
Posted on 03/30/2006 5:22:49 AM PST by secret garden
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".
esculent \ESS-kyuh-lunt\ adjective
: edible
Example sentence:
Sonia is a chef at The Wild Asparagus, a top-notch restaurant whose claim to fame is that every dish on the menu features an esculent native plant.
Etymology:
One appealing thing about "esculent" is that this word, which comes from the Latin for food ("esca"), has been around for 375 years. If we give you just one more tidbit of etymologythat "esca" is from Latin "edere," which means "to eat"can you pick which of the following words is NOT related to "esculent"?
comestible edacious edible escalade escarole obese
"Comestible" (meaning "edible"), "edacious" (meaning "voracious"), "edible," "escarole" (a type of salad green), and "obese" are all descendants of "edere." Only "escalade" (meaning "an act of scaling walls") doesn't belong on the list. It descends from the Italian "scalare," meaning "to scale." 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.
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Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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Rise and shine!
To: secret garden
To: secret garden
Yesterday we were chopping down some bamboo on our property. I was wondering if bamboo was esculent. Does anyone know?
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:24:58 AM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT!)
To: Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; Conspiracy Guy; ...
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD.
The MSM should enjoy a bitter yet esculent helping of crow for going after Nino and being made to look the fool, once again.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:26:56 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:27:30 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: Jemian
I was wondering if bamboo was esculent. Does anyone know? He (She?) thinks so...
To: secret garden; All
To: secret garden
If I have to hear that from one more woman, I swear....
To: Jemian
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:29:02 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
The crap coleslaw I had last nuight was NOT esculent
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:29:28 AM PST
by
Toby06
(Thank you.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
Usually vegetarian animals have flat teeth and not pointy fangs up front. A+ for the cuddly visual.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:30:11 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden

"This is an esculent thread!"
L
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:30:53 AM PST
by
Lurker
(In God I trust. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
To: bentfeather
Good morning! It is a bright, sunny, blue sky kind of day here.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:31:06 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
I've risen. I've shone. I've decided it wasn't worth the effort.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:31:27 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: secret garden
Esculent Breakfast =

Mmm, good.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:31:55 AM PST
by
tioga
(Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
To: Toby06
Vegetables are what food eats. A for you.
To: Lurker
Keanu must've slept in his Dorothy Hamill wig again last night. A+ for you!
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:33:36 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: Toby06
Here, try this.

It is much more esculent!
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:34:23 AM PST
by
tioga
(Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
To: theDentist
Don't you have a waiting room full of patients to torture treat?
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:34:50 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
I have considered importing one or two of those to help keep our bamboo down to a reasonable thicket.
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posted on
03/30/2006 5:35:48 AM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT!)
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