Word of the Day

ep·i·thet
noun
1.A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.

2.A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln.

3.An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.

4.Biology. A word in the scientific name of an animal or plant following the name of the genus and denoting a species, variety, or other division of the genus, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.