Word of the Day

Canorous

ca•no•rous
Pronunciation: \kuh-NOR-us; KAN-or-uhs\
Function: adjective

Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.

"But birds that are canorous and whose notes we most commend, are of little throats, and short necks, as Nightingales, Finches, Linnets, Canary birds and Larks."

— Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica