SALUBRIOUS

salubrious: promoting health; healthful; wholesome

Example: A sea voyage was undertaken during half a dozen vacations, but during a portion of forty-two summers I “pitched my moving tent” in salubrious Saratoga, and a part of twenty-one summers was spent on the heights of Mohonk. [Reference: Recollections of a Long Life, by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler]

CIRCUMAMBIENT

circumambient: surrounding; encompassing; extending all around; being on all sides

Example: It's a voice that does something physical to me, that jumps out of the circumambient air and seizes hold of me like a thing that lives off the blood of other things. [Reference: T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth]

PRECOCIAL

precocial: capable of independent activities from birth (see the following example)

Example: The use of the pig in neuroscience research is gaining popularity because pigs are anatomically similar to humans and many of their organ systems grow and develop similarly as well. Pigs are also precocial, meaning they are born with well-developed sensory and motor systems. This allows them to be very mobile and weaned at an early age. [Reference: Science Daily, (June 28, 2010)]

TRANSMUTE

transmute:

transitive verb:

- to change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another; to transform

intransitive verb:

- to undergo transmutation


Example: Sand that once was rock becomes rock once again as it slowly sediments and compresses into layers of sandstone, which, in turn, transmute into sand. [Reference: Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth]