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caducous
adjective
dropping off very early, as leaves.
More about caducous
The adjective caducous 鈥�(of leaves) falling early or too early鈥� comes straight from Latin 肠补诲奴肠耻蝉 鈥渢ending to fall, tottery, unsteady; transitory,鈥� a derivative of the verb cadere 鈥渢o fall, fall over, collapse.鈥� Cadere is also the source of the Latin compound verb 诲脓肠颈诲别谤别 鈥渢o fall down, fall over,鈥� which forms the derivative adjective 诲脓肠颈诲耻耻蝉 鈥渇alling, tending to fall or be dropped鈥� (English deciduous). The botanical difference between caducous and deciduous is that caducous leaves fall too easily or too early, and deciduous leaves fall at the end of the growing season. Caducous entered English in the 18th century.
how is caducous used?
After the flowering period, the ground under the oak, poplar, and other trees, is strewn with their male catkins; these are caducous, falling off soon after they have shed their pollen …
So is it with this calamity: it does not touch me: something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be torn away without tearing me, nor enlarged without enriching me, falls off from me, and leaves no scar. It was caducous.
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More about yare
Yare is an uncommon adjective meaning 鈥渞eady, prepared.鈥� As is usual for short words, Middle English shows more than two dozen spellings; Old English is more restrained, gearu and gearo being the most common (before the inflections are added). The Old English forms derive from the verb gearwian 鈥渢o prepare, equip.鈥� Gearwian is the Old English development of the Germanic verb garwian 鈥渢o prepare, equip, make.鈥� The noun garwi– 鈥渆quipment, adornment,鈥� a derivative of garwian, is the source for the Old Norse noun gervi, 驳酶谤惫颈 鈥渁pparel, equipment,鈥� source of English gear. The English noun garb comes via Middle French garbe 鈥済race, graceful figure, elegance,鈥� from Italian garbo 鈥渇orm, grace, elegance (of dress),鈥� a derivative of the verb garbare 鈥渢o be pleasant,鈥� from Old High German garawi聽“dress, equipment,鈥� ultimately from Germanic garwian.
how is yare used?
dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation; for thy assailant is quick, skilfull, and deadly.
Bear up, gentle laddie, for we must be yare, Or of Bruin the bear else we may be ware.
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alimentation
noun
nourishment; nutrition.
More about alimentation
Alimentation, 鈥渘ourishment, food,鈥� comes via Medieval Latin 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻迟颈艒 (inflectional stem 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻迟颈艒n-), ultimately a derivative of the Latin verb alere 鈥渢o nourish.鈥� The many English derivatives from alere include alumnus and alumna 鈥渘ursling, foster son, foster daughter,鈥� aliment (from alimentum 鈥渇ood, nourishment, provisions鈥�), alimentary (from 补濒颈尘别苍迟腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to nutrition;鈥� the alimentary canal runs from the mouth to the anus), alimony (from 补濒颈尘艒苍颈补 鈥渇ood, support, nourishment鈥�), and alma 尘腻迟别谤, literally 鈥渘ourishing mother鈥� (from the adjective almus 鈥渘ourishing鈥�). Latin alere comes from the Proto-Indo-European root al– 鈥渢o grow, make grow, nourish,鈥� source of Old Irish alim 鈥淚 nourish,鈥� Welsh al 鈥渓itter (of animals),鈥� Gothic alan 鈥渢o grow up,鈥� Old Norse ala 鈥渢o nourish, raise.鈥� Finally, the suffixed Proto-Indo-European form alto– 鈥済rown, grown up鈥� becomes ald– in Germanic, the source of English old; the Germanic compound noun wer-ald, literally 鈥渕an age, life on earth,鈥� becomes weorold in Old English, world in English. Alimentation entered English in the late 16th century.
how is alimentation used?
In mid-March, in the tense week before the British government announced its belated coronavirus-induced lockdown, certain everyday products became extraordinarily hard to find. Panicked buyers swept up fundamentals of alimentation and elimination: yeast, flour, bathroom tissue.
The effect and value of alimentation was a question for the philosopher as well as for the physiologist, and the gourmand gave utterance to a truism when he said that the destiny of nations depended upon the manner in which they were fed.
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