SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: CHIRAL

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:

CHIRAL

PRONUNCIATION:

(KY-ruhl) 

MEANING:

adjective: Not superimposable on its mirror image.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek cheir (hand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghes- (hand), which also gave us cheiromancy/chiromancy (palmistry), surgeon (literally, one who works with hands), and enchiridion (handbook). Earliest documented use: 1894.

USAGE:

"Back in Eden's Prairie, it had been an abnormality, an asymmetricality, like a chiral molecule, one that has the same basic structure as others, but doesn't fit in anywhere."
Marie Myung-Ok Lee; Somebody's Daughter; Beacon Press; 2005. wordsmith.org

Lady Supreme!!!!