Thursday, September 29, 2011

Oh Yes, THOSE Trees

Entry of the Day:
Anatiferous in Johnson's Dictionary

ANATI'FEROUS. adj. [from anas and fero, Lat.] Producing ducks.

If there be anatiferous trees, whose corruption breaks forth into barnacles; yet, if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which produce not them again. Brown's Vulgar Errours.
Just think of the countless times you've been in conversation, searching for an adjective that refers to things that make ducks. Well, now you know.

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