The two most common ones are abstemious 'indulging only
moderately in food and drink', and facetious 'treating serious issues with
inappropriate humour'. Dictionaries also contains the chemical
term arsenious 'relating to arsenic with a valency of three', while the
20-volume historical .
English Dictionary includes abstentious 'abstinent'
as well as the rare botanical and zoological terms acheilous 'having one or
both lips absent', anemious 'growing in windy situations', caesious 'bluish or
greyish green', and annelidous 'belonging to the phylum Annelida'. (Based on
the Oxford Companion to the English Language)
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