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interfluous

interfluous is the alternative form of interfluent.

Meaning of interfluent

Adjective

interfluent (comparative more interfluent, superlative most interfluent)

  1. (dated, rare) flowing into one another.
    • Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter.1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the...

Forms of interfluous

comparativemore interfluous
superlativemost interfluous

Questions about interfluous

What is interfluous the alternative form of?
Interfluous is the alternative form of interfluent.

Words near interfluous in the dictionary

  1. interfluencies
  2. interfluency
  3. interfluent
  4. interfluminal
  5. interfluorophore
  6. interfluous
  7. interfluve
  8. interfluves
  9. interfluvia
  10. interfluvial
  11. interfluvium

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