Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bursting through a surface or covering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bot, prominent, as if bursting through the cortical layer or epidermis, as is seen in some tetraspores of algæ, certain structures in lichens, and many leaf-fungi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Which
emerges , orbursts through.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Was it so peculiar to scan each of these acquaintances respectively with circumspect glances, to do so apprehensively (more apprehensively and yet more often to the male than the female of this brother and sister combination as she, whom he barely knew at all, was nearer and the sexual interest would be more conspicuous), and to let the erumpent odors of both, imagined or real, send him on
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These communities are, and abut, the nascent waters borne from springs emerging with erumpent display.
CounterPunch 2010
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i love it so much that i can't contain an erumpent smile. ok, so that was stretching, but it sort of works. in other news, i don't want to go to work today. i want to snuggle down into my blankets and finish reading my book. it won't happen, but it's a nice thought.
bebelua Diary Entry bebelua 2002
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He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy.
reesetee commented on the word erumpent
Bursting forth. What a great word.
February 23, 2007
qms commented on the word erumpent
Does random unreason triumphant
Explain the party's entrumpment,
Or is it the working
Of illness long lurking
Whose presence at last is erumpent?
August 25, 2016
bilby commented on the word erumpent
Now I'm thinking of crumpets.
August 25, 2016
madmouth commented on the word erumpent
this is one for the queen of hearts' lost sylloquary
August 26, 2016
bilby commented on the word erumpent
I anoint madmouth the queen of hearts.
August 26, 2016
madmouth commented on the word erumpent
can I instead be queen of harts? more artemisiacal
August 26, 2016
bilby commented on the word erumpent
Sheesh ya think I'm made of anointment?
August 26, 2016
bilby commented on the word erumpent
Ok then queen of harts it is.
*flourish*
August 26, 2016