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fumose

fumose adjective: fumous; of or resembling fumes or smoke.

Adjective

fumose (comparative more fumose, superlative most fumose)

  1. fumous; of or resembling fumes or smoke
    • The structural characters agree but the wing apex is more brown fumose […]1949 January, D. Elmo Hardy, “The North American Chrysopilus (Rhagionidae)”, in The American Midland Naturalist, volume 41, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 143–167

Forms of fumose

comparativemore fumose
superlativemost fumose

Words formed from fumose

Questions about fumose

What does fumose mean?
Fumose means fumous; of or resembling fumes or smoke.
What part of speech is fumose?
Fumose is an adjective.

Words near fumose in the dictionary

  1. fummles
  2. fumoir
  3. fumoirs
  4. fumonisin
  5. fumonisins
  6. fumose
  7. fumosities
  8. fumosity
  9. fumosorinone
  10. fumous
  11. fumously

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