• Spumescent

    Origin

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

    Full definition of spumescent

    Adjective

    spumescent

    1. (rare) Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
      • 1957, John Bell Clayton and Martha 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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