WORD OF THE DAY.

The Word of the Day comes from "A Thousand Ships" by Natalie Haynes. It is longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.

LAESTRYGONIANS

Laestrygones, also spelled Laestrygonians or Lestrygonians, fictional race of cannibalistic giants described in Book 10 of Homer’s Odyssey. When Odysseus and his men land on the island native to the Laestrygones, the giants pelt Odysseus’s ships with boulders, sinking all but Odysseus’s own ship.