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gemmeous

gemmeous adjective: resembling or relating to gems.

Adjective

gemmeous (comparative more gemmeous, superlative most gemmeous)

  1. (archaic) Resembling or relating to gems.
    • They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors.1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology

Forms of gemmeous

comparativemore gemmeous
superlativemost gemmeous

Origin of gemmeous

From Latin gemmeus. See gem.

Words formed from gemmeous

  • gemmeous dragonet

Questions about gemmeous

What does gemmeous mean?
Gemmeous means resembling or relating to gems.
What part of speech is gemmeous?
Gemmeous is an adjective.

Words near gemmeous in the dictionary

  1. gemmel
  2. Gemmell
  3. Gemmells
  4. gemmels
  5. gemmen
  6. gemmeous
  7. gemmer
  8. gemmeries
  9. gemmers
  10. gemmery
  11. gemmier

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