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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)

  1. (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.

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