Word of the Day for Tuesday 8th April 2014
Achromic \ ey-KROH-mik \, adjective;
1. Colourless; without colouring matter.
Quotes:
The opportunity to turn something down, to glance at the achromic
cauliflower and move on, to pick at a few foods, guzzle others,
and then casually, guiltlessly, slide them all off the tray and into the trash if one wishes...
-- Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns , 2009
The upper half of the very tall cells is either achromic or it stains very
lightly with toluidine blue.
-- Edited by John Buettner-Janusch, Evolutionary and Genetic Biology of Primates , 1964
Origin:
A combination of a- and chromic , achromic entered English in the 1750’s.
The prefix a- is a variant of an, which meant "not," "without," or "lacking"
in Greek, as in the words anarchy and amoral . A common variant is achromous.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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