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spumiferous

spumiferous adjective: producing foam.

Adjective

spumiferous (comparative more spumiferous, superlative most spumiferous)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Producing foam.
    • spumiferous agent

Forms of spumiferous

comparativemore spumiferous
superlativemost spumiferous

Origin of spumiferous

From Latin spūmifer. By surface analysis, spume + -i- + -ferous.

Questions about spumiferous

What does spumiferous mean?
Spumiferous means producing foam.
What part of speech is spumiferous?
Spumiferous is an adjective.

Words near spumiferous in the dictionary

  1. spumescence
  2. spumescent
  3. spumid
  4. spumier
  5. spumiest
  6. spumiferous
  7. spumific
  8. spumifics
  9. spumigin
  10. spumigins
  11. spuminess

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