Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

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

  • adjective Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

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  • adjective rare Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

Etymologies

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Latin spumescens, p.pr. of spumescere to grow foamy.

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Examples

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • The conservatory was also a terrific place to hide from her mother; with a book and an apple, Pagan would slither like a lizard under jade fronds and jagged malachite spikes, concealed by yellow froth and spumescent greens.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • She's always understood that it would be business madness for the Firm to devalue its products - pomp, circumstance, the rarefied and spumescent iconography of nationalism - by trading on the political bourse.

    The First Post: Latest 2008

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