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porraceous

/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/

porraceous adjective: resembling the leek in colour; greenish.

Adjective

porraceous (comparative more porraceous, superlative most porraceous)

  1. Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
    • If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432
    • During the night she vomited porraceous matter.1914, Georges Dieulafoy, A Text-Book of Medicine, page 880

Examples of porraceous in a sentence

  • [B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".1956, Paul Dehn, For Love and Money, page 79:
  • My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue.1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214:

Synonyms of porraceous

Forms of porraceous

comparativemore porraceous
superlativemost porraceous

Origin of porraceous

From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).

Questions about porraceous

What does porraceous mean?
Porraceous means resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
How do you use porraceous in a sentence?
[B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".
What part of speech is porraceous?
Porraceous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce porraceous?
Porraceous is pronounced /pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/.

Words near porraceous in the dictionary

  1. porprismacovirus
  2. porprismacoviruses
  3. porpus
  4. porpuses
  5. Porra
  6. porraceous
  7. Porrajmos
  8. Porras
  9. Porrases
  10. Porrata
  11. Porratas

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