Pronounced: poy-KEE-luh-thuhrm, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word at all, but it is a fancy term for a word I do know. Looking at the word, “kilo” and “therm” look familiar, but that doesn’t help me to the meaning.
Yesterday’s word
The word Derwenter is “an ex-convict”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word is not named after a person, but after place; the Derwent is a river in Tasmania; there used to be a convict settlement on its banks.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 