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Webster 1913 Edition
Spumescent
Spu-mes′cent
(-sent)
, Adj.
[L.
spumescens
, p. pr. of spumescere
to grow foamy, from spuma
foam.] Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
Definition 2024
spumescent
spumescent
English
Adjective
spumescent (comparative more spumescent, superlative most spumescent)
- (rare) Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
- 1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, p. 79:
- The snowfall had changed again, the flakes larger now and less insistent; they had a buoyant and spumescent quality.
- 1993, Hjalmar Thesen, The Way Back: A Novel, ISBN 9780864862549, p. 146:
- His eyes burned black with the intensity of their gaze over the hidden ravine below; over the thin, white waterfall, spumescent, blown into mist.
- 2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction, ISBN 9780316021807, online edition:
- Then she screamed as a jet of spumescent gore slopped across the front of the paralysed fabric.
- 1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, p. 79: