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polyphloesboean

polyphloesboean is the alternative form of polyphloisbic.

Meaning of polyphloisbic

Adjective

polyphloisbic (comparative more polyphloisbic, superlative most polyphloisbic)

  1. (poetic) Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering.
    • Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518.

Forms of polyphloesboean

comparativemore polyphloesboean
superlativemost polyphloesboean

Origin of polyphloesboean

From πολυφλοίσβοιο (poluphloísboio), genitive of Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos), as attested in Iliad 1.34.

Questions about polyphloesboean

What is polyphloesboean the alternative form of?
Polyphloesboean is the alternative form of polyphloisbic.

Words near polyphloesboean in the dictionary

  1. polyphialides
  2. polyphialidic
  3. polyphilia
  4. polyphiloprogenitive
  5. polyphite
  6. polyphloesboean
  7. polyphloisbic
  8. polyphloisboian
  9. polyphloroglucinol
  10. polyphloroglucinols
  11. polyphobia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polyphloesboean (page history and authors); polyphloisbic (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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