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nepheligenous

nepheligenous adjective: producing clouds of smoke.

Adjective

nepheligenous (comparative more nepheligenous, superlative most nepheligenous)

  1. (humorous, rare) Producing clouds of smoke.
    • I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using stinky tobacco with nepheligenous results.
    • […] let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. For now the over-tense nerves are all unstraining themselves, […]1862, Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, page 759

Examples of nepheligenous in a sentence

  • You were like / a nepheligenous intersection solstice of / Besmirched Animus; we / cluttered together like Advertisement / arrhythmia.(Can we date this quote?), Derrick Tyson, Isolated Lightships, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
  • Leaning forward, still holding the nepheligenous pipe in his hand, his deep brown eyes looked directly into hers.2006 02, Janet Haneberg, CRAZY APPLES, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 330:

Forms of nepheligenous

comparativemore nepheligenous
superlativemost nepheligenous

Origin of nepheligenous

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -genous. Coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1862.

Questions about nepheligenous

What does nepheligenous mean?
Nepheligenous means producing clouds of smoke.
How do you use nepheligenous in a sentence?
You were like / a nepheligenous intersection solstice of / Besmirched Animus; we / cluttered together like Advertisement / arrhythmia.
What part of speech is nepheligenous?
Nepheligenous is an adjective.

Words near nepheligenous in the dictionary

  1. nephalist
  2. nephalists
  3. nephashoth
  4. nephelauxetic
  5. Nephele
  6. nepheligenous
  7. nepheline
  8. nepheline syenite
  9. nepheline-syenite
  10. nephelines
  11. nephelinic

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