Message-ID: <15441602.1075858928672.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:01:48 -0700 (PDT) From: wsmith@wordsmith.org To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--plica Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Wordsmith @ENRON X-To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \SSCOTT5 (Non-Privileged)\Scott, Susan M.\Wordsmith X-Origin: Scott-S X-FileName: SSCOTT5 (Non-Privileged).pst plica (PLY-kuh) noun, plural plicae (PLI-see, -kee) 1. A fold, especially of skin. 2. Hair in dirty, matted form. [From Medieval Latin, fold, from Latin plicare, to fold.] "He underwent knee surgery during the summer to remove a plica ... from his left knee." Tom Kensler, Sights Are Set on Sydney, The Denver Post, May 13, 1997. This week's theme: Words with letters in reverse alphabetical order. ............................................................................ Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else. -William Saroyan, writer (1908-1981) Looking for a word or quotation previously featured in AWAD? They are all archived at http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html . For the theme list, see http://wordsmith.org/awad/themes.html . Alphabetical listing of the words is available at http://wordsmith.org/awad/wordlist.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/plica.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/plica.ram