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English
Etymology
From Middle English spumous, from Latin spūmōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
spumous (comparative more spumous, superlative most spumous)
- frothy or foamy; spumy
1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. , London: J Tonson , →OCLC:The spumous and florid State which the Blood acquires in passing through the Lungs.
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spūmōsus; equivalent to spume + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
spumous
- (pathology, Late Middle English, rare) spumous, foamy
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