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A.Word.A.Day--anemious

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This week's theme: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order.

anemious (uh-NEE-mi-uhs) adjective

Growing in windy conditions.

[From Greek anemos (wind).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"By late afternoon the light that washed over the garden turned it into a lake of gold, with islands of shadow; the blown lilies, the long tendrils of roses and the anemious grasses streamed like plants that grow in water." Edith Pope; River in the Wind; Scribner; 1954.

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