Pronounced: ee-kwuh-PAH-luhnt, adj
Notes: I’ve never run across this word: it looks like “to equip with pollen”
Yesterday’s word
The word refulgence means “a radiant or resplendent quality of state; brilliance”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
Back in early 2004, the word was effulgence; in the “Comments” section, I noted that a related word was refulgence, which had a similar meaning, but implied reflected light. Our word came from the Latin word refulgēre (to shine brightly), which came from the verb fulgēre (to shine). There is a neat offshoot word related to the Latin root: “fulchronograph”, which is a device for recording lightning strikes.
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