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This week's theme: words from the plant kingdom.

ecesis (i-SEE-sis) noun

   The entry or establishment of a plant in a new habitat.

[From Greek okiesis (inhabitation), from oikein (to inhabit). Ultimately
from Indo-European root weik- (clan) that is also the forbear of vicinity,
village, villa, and villain (originally, a villain was a farm servant,
one who lived in a villa or a country house).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=ecesis

Decided to pack up and move to a new city? Why call it a mere moving
(or shifting) when you can grandly announce your ecesis.

-Anu Garg
 gargATwordsmith.org

  "Perhaps there are also ecological barriers to ecesis in new habitats even
   when seeds arrive."
   Richard H. Groves; Australian Vegetation; Cambridge University Press; 1994.

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