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fuliginose

fuliginose is the alternative form of fuliginous.

Meaning of fuliginous

Adjective

fuliginous (comparative more fuliginous, superlative most fuliginous)

  1. Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky.
    • …the fuliginous Matter form'd, by the Drift of the Air, into the Shape of a Species of marine Lichen, in Creeks of Chimneys, Stoves, Forges and Furnaces, where there are Fires kept for a considerable Time, and much Fuel spent.1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England

Forms of fuliginose

comparativemore fuliginose
superlativemost fuliginose

Questions about fuliginose

What is fuliginose the alternative form of?
Fuliginose is the alternative form of fuliginous.

Words near fuliginose in the dictionary

  1. Fuli
  2. Fuliang
  3. fulicine
  4. Fulidhoo
  5. fuligin
  6. fuliginose
  7. fuliginosities
  8. fuliginosity
  9. fuliginous
  10. fuliginously
  11. fuligorubin

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