Word of the Day: EXTERRANEOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from  Latin exterraneus (from ex- (out) + terra (land)) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“… had they only a morsel of standing room – an exterraneous rock from which to pull. How the wheels crush and pulverise all that they come upon, under their three or four tons weight! …”

From: The Dublin University Magazine
A Literary and Political Journal
Volume II, July to December, 1833
Familiar Epistles from London. No. IV

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