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fulgury

fulgury noun: lightning.

Noun

fulgury (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) lightning
    • As a picture unroll'd -
      And my age-spanning sight
      Saw the time I had been there before flash like fulgury out of the night.c. 1918, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The House

Origin of fulgury

Latin fulgur.

Questions about fulgury

What does fulgury mean?
Fulgury means lightning.
What part of speech is fulgury?
Fulgury is a noun.

Words near fulgury in the dictionary

  1. fulgurators
  2. fulgurite
  3. fulgurites
  4. fulgurous
  5. fulgurously
  6. fulgury
  7. Fulhadhoo
  8. fulham
  9. Fulham virgin
  10. Fulham virgins
  11. fulhams

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