This week's theme: porcine words to mark the Chinese new year.

epigeal (ep-i-JEE-uhl) adjective

   Living close to the ground, as certain plants.

[From Greek epigeios (on the earth), from epi (upon) + ge (earth).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "This nation must not let Denzil Douglas and his incompetent,
   all-good-for-themselves ministers bring us, a once successful and
   progressive people, to an epigeal existence."
   Charles Warne; Energy-saving Bulbs or A Nation-saving Government;
   Democrat (St. Kitts and Nevis); Jan 27, 2007.

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