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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--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).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "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 (1949- )

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