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astrobleme (A.Word.A.Day)

astrobleme (AS-tro-bleem) noun

A scar on the earth's surface caused by the impact of a meteorite.

[Literally star-wound, from astro-, from Greek astron (star) + -bleme, from Greek blema (missile, wound).]

This one should be fun to use in a sentence. I'll go first: Ann Coulter today said she'd like to reduce Eric Alterman to nothing more than an astrobleme. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 9, 2002 8:08 AM