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cinerulent

cinerulent adjective: full of ashes; resembling ashes.

Adjective

cinerulent (comparative more cinerulent, superlative most cinerulent)

  1. (obsolete) Full of ashes; resembling ashes.
    • The best [form of cadmia] is the botritis, thick, moderately heavy, smooth, of a racemose superficies, which being broken is cinerulent.1661, Robert Lovell, “[ΠΑΝΟΡΤΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANORTKTOLOGIA] SIVE PAMMINERALOGICON. Or An Universal History of Minerals: […].], Geologia”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive...
    • The two chiefs of the Latin Muses have however shed a lustre over the cinerulent soil, the one by having had his abode upon it, the other by his sepulchre.1831, Richard Burgess, The Topography and Antiquities of Rome: Including Recent Discoveries Made about the Forum and the Via Sacra, volume 1, page 31

Forms of cinerulent

comparativemore cinerulent
superlativemost cinerulent

Origin of cinerulent

Borrowed from Latin cinerulentus, from cinis (“ashes”) (oblique stem ciner-) + -ulentus.

Questions about cinerulent

What does cinerulent mean?
Cinerulent means full of ashes; resembling ashes.
What part of speech is cinerulent?
Cinerulent is an adjective.

Words near cinerulent in the dictionary

  1. cinerites
  2. cineritious
  3. cineroentgenography
  4. cinerolone
  5. cinerous
  6. cinerulent
  7. cinerulose
  8. cineseismography
  9. cinesis
  10. cinetheodolite
  11. cinetheodolites

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