molendinaceous

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molendinaceous (moh-len-di-NAR-ee-us) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling the sails of a windmill.


Also molendinarious. From Latin, from molendinum, a mill, from molere, to grind.

File this one under Department of There's A Word For That?.

---L.

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Coo -- that's a pretty high Molendinaceousness Score. For modern literature, anyway.

---L.