Headline from The Independent, UK, 10 August, 2017:

Pig organs could soon be transplanted into humans after major 'xenotransplantation' breakthrough.

Today's word: xenotransplantation (n.) the transplantation of non-human material into a human patient.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occured to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

Image: "Pink Pig", author unknown, source: http://pngimg.com/download/2203.
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