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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1280/
- Published: 2023-08-01T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-28T18:44:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

flavedo (noun):

: the colored outer layer of the rind of a citrus fruit

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flavedo?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Flavedo comes from the New Latin word flavedo, meaning “yellow color,” the word’s etymology pointing to the shiny yellow rinds of the lemons you see in the grocery store. A citrus fruit’s flavedo (that is, its peel or rind) clings to its albedo, albedo referring to the pith—the whitish, spongy inner part of the rind of a citrus fruit. (Latin albedo means “whiteness, white color.”) While flavour may seem like a likely relation of flavedo, the two have distinct Latin sources: flavour traces back not to flavedo but to Latin flatus meaning “breath,” or “the act of blowing,” a word which also gave us another (indirectly) food-related word: flatulent.

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