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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--cay This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish. cay (kay, kee) noun A small low island of coral, sand, etc.; key. [From Spanish cayo (shoal).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Its terrain ranges from a myriad offshore islands, coral reefs and cays, white and black sand beaches, savannah, alpine meadows to the largest area of pristine rainforest outside the Amazon basin." Neil Hanson; Travel: Papua New Guinea; The Guardian (London); Mar 23, 2002. X-Bonus The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. -Peter De Vries, editor, novelist (1910-1993)

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