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Today's Word "edacious"

Given to eating on

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edacious \i-DAY-shus\ (adjective) - Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

"Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea." -- Henry White Warren, 'Among The Forces'

 

Edacious is from Latin edax, edac-, gluttonous, consuming, from edo, edere, to eat.


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