word of the day: salubrious

The word of the day is salubrious:

favorable to or promoting health; healthful:

1540–50; < Latin salūbr(is ) promoting health (akin to salūs health) + -ious

 

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"It was also a salubrious reminder to humans of our inescapable linkage to other creatures, including some very humble ones.  We are, at the most basic level of classification, eukaryotes.  So are amoebae.  So are yeasts.  So are jellyfish, sea cucumbers, the little parasites that cause malaria, and rhododendrons."

 - David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life