Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Vomiting flames, as a volcano.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Vomiting flames, as a volcano.

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  • adjective poetic Throwing up flames, as a volcano does.

Etymologies

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Latin flammivomus; flamma flame + vomere to vomit.

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Examples

  • The sun, with rays flammivomous, beat on the blue-black sand; And sportive little Saurians disported on the strand; But oft the Iguanodon reproved them in their glee, And said, "Alas! this Saurian Age is not what it should be!"

    Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

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  • I absolutely love this word! Wish I were still teaching Latin as it's a great English derivative.

    May 19, 2012