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halitus

halitus noun: a vapour.

Noun

halitus (plural halituses or halitus)

  1. A vapour.
    • She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase

halitus meaning in Tamil

halitus in Tamil

விடுமூச்சு, வெளிமூச்சு

Forms of halitus

pluralhalituses
pluralhalitus

Origin of halitus

From Latin halitus.

Questions about halitus

What does halitus mean?
Halitus means a vapour.
What is halitus in Tamil?
Halitus in Tamil is விடுமூச்சு, வெளிமூச்சு. See Halitus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is halitus?
Halitus is a noun.
What is the plural of halitus?
The plural of halitus is halituses.

Words near halitus in the dictionary

  1. halitosis
  2. halitotic
  3. halitous
  4. halitoxin
  5. halituous
  6. halitus
  7. halituses
  8. halityloside
  9. halitzah
  10. halitzot
  11. haliva

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halitus (page history and authors); halitus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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