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Apr 24, 2007 This week's theme Words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order This week's words abstemious caesious anemious facetious annelidous Have your say in our discussion forum Wordsmith Talk Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg caesious This week's theme: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. caesious (SEE-zee-uhs) adjective Bluish or grayish green. [From Latin caesius, probably from caelum (sky).] "Leaves [are] medium green on upper surface, caesious beneath." Peter Sell and Gina Murrell; Flora of Great Britain and Ireland; Cambridge University Press; 2006. X-Bonus If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)

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