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flammeous

flammeous adjective: pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling fire; fiery.

Adjective

flammeous (comparative more flammeous, superlative most flammeous)

  1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling fire; fiery.
    1. Having the color of fire or flame.
      • And that’s why his book lay in front of him, unfinished, though he could vouch for having written all these years, the ink vanishing on the pages each morning, when flammeous daylight broke into the room through a slight gap in the shutters.2003, Siddharth Katragadda, The Rebellious Daughter, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2003

Forms of flammeous

comparativemore flammeous
superlativemost flammeous

Origin of flammeous

From Latin flammeus (“fiery”), derivative of flamma (“a flame”).

Questions about flammeous

What does flammeous mean?
Flammeous means pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling fire; fiery.
What part of speech is flammeous?
Flammeous is an adjective.

Words near flammeous in the dictionary

  1. flammant
  2. flammation
  3. Flamme
  4. flammed
  5. flammekueche
  6. flammeous
  7. Flammer syndrome
  8. flammiferous
  9. flamming
  10. flammivomous
  11. flammkuchen

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