#WordOfTheDay for Monday, April 7, 2014 achromic \ ey-KROH-mik \ , adjective; 1. colorless; without coloring matter. 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 A combination of a- and chromic , achromic entered English in the 1750s. 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.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:22:01 +0000
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