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wintersome

wintersome noun: a crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.

Noun

wintersome (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
    • Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255

Adjective

wintersome (not comparable)

  1. (literary, rare) Wintry.
    • The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321

Questions about wintersome

What does wintersome mean?
Wintersome means a crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
What part of speech is wintersome?
Wintersome can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near wintersome in the dictionary

  1. winters
  2. winterscape
  3. winterscapes
  4. Winterset
  5. wintersful
  6. wintersome
  7. Winterson
  8. wintersports
  9. Wintersteen
  10. Wintersteens
  11. Winterstein

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