This week's theme: words related to food.

jentacular (jen-TAK-yuh-luhr) adjective

   Relating to breakfast.

[From Latin jentare (to breakfast).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "The Gentleman loved to hold that crackling rectangle in front of his
   face (folded, of course, into courteous fourths), loved the slant of
   the jentacular sun, the slightly acrid odor of the newsprint, the
   snappy headlines."
   Michael Griffith; Bibliophilia: A Novella and Stories; Arcade Publishing;
   2003.

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