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Added 9 October 2026

xenia

noun

Latin root: xenia Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about xenia at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The concept of hospitality to strangers.
The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.

noun

A coral of the genus Xenia of photosynthetic soft marine corals with many-branched arms which pulse and push water around the coral.

noun

plural of xenium

Origin

Borrowed from New Latin xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενῐ́ᾱ (xenĭ́ā, “hospitality”).

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