It's the Word of the Day for August 25th.

Today's word is undulent, spelled U-N-D-U-L-A-N-T.

Undulent is an adjective. It describes things that rise and fall in waves, or things that have a

wavy form, outline, or surface. Here's the word used in a sentence from lithub.com by Monica Wood.

Though tightly bound by our love of books, we bibliophiles are a sundry lot, managing our obsession

in a grand variety of ways.

We organize by title, by author, by genre, by topic, by color, by height, by width, by depth.

We stack books into attractive still lifes accompanied by a single tulip in a bud vase,

or into risky undulent towers, poised to flatten a passing housecat.

If you're looking for an adjective that encapsulates the rising and falling of the briny sea,

wave hello to the word undulent, while not an especially common descriptor.

It is useful not only for describing the ocean itself,

but for everything from rolling hills to a snake's sinuous movement to a fever that waxes and wanes.

The root of the word undulant is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Unda, a Latin word meaning wave.

Other English words swimming the wake of Unda includeundate, meaning to cover with a flood,

and undulate, meaning to form or move in waves.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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